Do you enjoy stories? Stories can transport us to fantastic places, send us on adventurous journeys, and make us meet unforgettable characters. Adrift is a free-flowing visual allegory of personified ‘space’ that unravels spatially, temporally and graphically through the collective efforts of multiple storytellers. It is a story with a life of its own. Conceived as a social experiment, it fuses the art of doodling, drawing and graphic novels, it explores the interactive nature of storytelling.

Through a workshop, Chitra Chandrashekhar introduced the idea and methods of using allegory in storytelling, graphic or otherwise, and involved participants as characters in the narrative, Adrift. Participants worked collaboratively towards one possible resolution of the narrative presented to them.

The boards were then taken to an open, public space, where Chitra facilitated dialogues with the audience in real-time, using doodles, notes and maps. These responses were compiled into a graphic novella on another canvas, allowing the contributors to appreciate their shared sense of ownership and authorship.