This site specific, multimedia installation is a disjointed and connected set of images, letters, objects that try to make sense of the countless number of events that may have happened on May 3rd 1945. 
Responding to a set of 128 found images from May 3rd 1945 taken by an unknown American GI in the outskirts of Kolkata. These images were found by American curators Jerri Zbiral and Alan Teller and they asked 10 Calcutta based artists to respond to them. Alakananda Nag was one of them. This is a part Fulbright funded project.

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Some things we know, the rest is left to the imagination. In effect, what is presented, is a quasi-reality of Banerjee’s life.

The viewer walks into what seems like a dark room, which in a sense, gives rise to the story of Banerjee and creates an abstract chronicle, just like it did with the photographs back in 1945.  
The viewer is taken into a space far removed from Banerjee’s life and closer to the set of originals, straddling between past and present, archival and recent photographs, objects, letters, certificated, radio recordings, imagined and obvious reality.

What the viewer makes of it is what remains giving rise to infinite possibilities.