Working with recycled textiles like her mother’s sarees, old scarves and fabrics, some of them are populated traditional Indian prints and embroidery techniques. They become skin-like embodiments as the artist places/displaces them in the space to imagine them as an egg or a mango, a river or a glass of milk. These textiles present create a temporary undone space of belongings that are meant to be activated with the viewer’s willing suspension of disbelief. They remain even without the artist’s presence- as props that allow us into a place where oral stories blur boundaries and shape identities.

Often red turmeric makes its way into the performance, imagined as a pigment to draw borders onto the ground- easily erased - but easily staining the air with its lightness and cultural heaviness of meaning.

Partially scripted and partially improvised, the artist embodies characters from personal and mythological stories with an intensity that alludes to how life can depend on recollecting, retracing, and reclaiming our pasts to imagine a new future.