ahmedabad passing from near gujarat university brts bus stand the heads turn when they see an expansive wallart it takes a couple of seconds for the person to realize that its in fact the faade of a public toilet but its not just one instance the toilets maintained by ahmedabad municipal corporation amc at places such as gota crossroads thaltej crossroads mansi crossroads under shivranjani flyover anandnagar crossroads and near jivraj park among others are also painted in myriad huesthe work is by priyanka thaker an architect by training and a wallartist by passion the project took shape in my mind about a year ago why cant we have more art in public place to deck up the citys look after brainstorming i chose public toilets due to multiple reasons the first and foremost was to improve the perception of a toilet she said adding that she presented the idea to amc and it was accepted for 15 sites across the city after the initial success we are planning to paint more public toilets soon my team has also expanded from one to 14does it improve perception of users priyanka answered in affirmative peeing on the outside stops as people think at least once due to the dcor it becomes eyecatching and more people are motivated to visit it we have so far got good feedback but more importantly people now realize that toilets can also be beautified she said adding that shes not in the know of any major project in india for public toiletsshe uses abstract geometry inspired by cubism as the central theme along with hands the work started in pandemic and we were acutely aware of that human touch moreover hands can convey so much meaning without any cultural or language barriers said priyanka