Inside the Melancholic Object (an elegy for a migrant worker) Dimensions: variable Materials: Co2on calico, handloom co2on, coee, synthe9c wool. Year: 2012 19th century history of co2on and coee is conjured to confront the forma9on of the other. Both the materials are replete with certain unclaimed truths about body and labor. Monotony and repe99on as processes are drawn to re-contextualize the metaphoric poten9al of these materials. These physical, laborious processes are layered with the residual aspects of liquids and the suspended weight of masses. Surface treatment of dyeing, the process of coloring cloth, is conjoined with its antonym, fading, where, the used, and the worn, are seen as representa9ons of many, oOen disregarded, bodies. Through, the spa9al and hap9c languages of sculpture, the viewers body is brought closer inside the abstract spaces of desola9on and melancholia.

Abrasion and Erasure (On Labour) Medium: 10 Hand embroidered drawings on handkerchief Year: 2011-2012