Going beyond the dictionary meaning, what does "formless" mean? Is it the lack of form or what cannot be confined to a fixed form? If an artist doesn't put his brush to the canvas and seeks beauty in the textures of a tree bark instead, is it still art? And what about the process where an artist paints a piece of work and tears it up to create what it could be?

Mumbai-based writer, photographer, filmmaker and musician Ronojoy Sircar had been grappling with these questions ever since he read French intellectual Georges Bataille's journal, Documents, which represents a dissident branch of surrealism.