A garbage bin in Chennai Metropolitan Area that combines sustainability and aesthetics

Experiences in late childhood and early adulthood stick fast and long like cyanoacrylate, and would sometimes go on to be fodder for creativity. That is plain, observed logic. But if you are a pedant given to swallowing something only if it arrives with a saccharine coating of high-sounding concepts, here they are for you.

‘Schema Theory’ and ‘Reminiscence Bump’, both from psychology, explain this form of creativity. A 38-year-old architect displaying no signs of pedantry, M. Dilli Babu explains his creation artistique as plainly as possible in any human language. “What I saw as a child I have recreated.”