Mirage of the Mahabharata
2023
84” x 24”
Chrome cut vinyl
My grandmother was a restless lady; she rearranged furniture in her free time.
Our couch and chair continuously rotated around the room, taking turns under a large painting of running horses as depicted in the Mahabharata. Naturally, this meant that all the photos we took while sitting on the couch or chair cropped the painting, only ever revealing the bottom half of it. There is a superstition that the depiction of running horses in a home can cause family feuds. This mysterious painting is flattened onto the wall, somewhere between a shadow and a mirage, looking into the past and reflecting a fuzzy silhouette of the present.
If bureaucracy was a chair
2023
24” x 35” x 24”
Security dome, vinyl chair
The husk of a swing
2023
60” x 24” x 132”
Punched steel slotted angle, transparency printed photo, LED light, chains, extruded ceramic handwriting, braided sarees
Under the swing, I want to collect handwriting, documents, artifacts, and memories, like a filing cabinet sunk down to the bottom of the ocean.
The clay impressions and extrusions are of my mother’s handwriting; the braided fabric is from three of my grandmother’s least favorite sarees.