BANGALORE
Antony is the keeper of a loo-book, a visual journal on the bathrooms she visits.
Indu Antony, a dentist with a post-graduation in clinical research, is now nowhere close to uttering lines like ‘this is going to hurt just a little bit’ to wide-mouthed, terror-stricken patients.
After quite an impressive summersault with the career-graph, Dr Antony is now a full-time photographer. If that wasn’t enough to raise both brows, she serves more unconventional swerves.
Antony is the religious keeper of a loo-book. For the uninitiated, it is a journal on the bathrooms she visits. The décor, accessories, door knobs, toilet paper… they are all elaborately sketched onto this book she has been keeping for the past seven years.
“Every restroom I go, I draw whatever I like about it. If I don’t have the book around, I sketch it on tissues or whatever piece of paper I can find. If even that is impossible, I click a picture of it and later copy it into my book,” says Antony, explaining her modus operandi.
Even bad bathrooms are featured in her loo-book. Why this strange fascination? “As a child, I used to spend hours in the bathroom reading. And during medical college, the loo was my favourite space to study. On an average, I would spend four to five hours locked up in the bathroom.”
She has many a loo tale to narrate. Giancarlo’s Place in Lavalle Road has one of Antony’s favourite restrooms. “They have a metallic ear-shaped door knob. You have to twist it to open the door. Oh, I loved it.” She has some suggestions too. Like the restrooms at the Leela Palace in Bangalore could make a right setting for an experimental fashion show. And those at the Garuda Mall, “they are a pervert’s dream come true with mirror-flooring. Funny indeed,” she rolls her eyes and shakes her curls.
All public restrooms make for an excellent bonding space, she says. “The cleaning staff tells me very interesting stories. And even other women, who wait for their turn to use the loo, almost always have something nice to say.”
Obviously, comfortable bathrooms are a priority for Antony. She has lots of ideas for her dream bathroom and this 28-year-old is working towards it. It would have open ceiling – “I love natural lighting” — rain showers, white walls, purple book shelves, colourful accessories including a funky toilet paper holder and “a lot of mirrors.”
“It’s evolving inside my head,” adds Antony with a laugh.
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