70” x 183”
Canvas, Burlap, Indigo Dyes. Sequins, Currency, Mirrors, Acrylic
2022
W.M. 265 marks the beginning of my exploration of architecture as a container for memory. The work emerged from an attempt to understand how places continue to shape us long after they have disappeared, carrying histories that are both inherited and lived.
Inspired by my grandparents' home in Punjab following the Partition of British India, the installation draws together fragments of architecture and memory: the open courtyard, weathered walls, niches, overhead fans, and the rhythms of everyday life. Constructed from indigo-dyed canvas, photographic transfers, fabric, thread, and found materials, the work assembles these fragments into an imagined architecture rather than reconstructing a specific house. The structure reflects how memory itself operates—partial, layered, and continually rewritten.
Created while reflecting on migration, displacement, and belonging, W.M. 265 asks how home persists after its physical loss. The house is no longer accessible to me, yet it continues to exist as an emotional landscape, carried through stories, family photographs, and embodied memory. Rather than offering nostalgia, the work considers architecture as something we inhabit internally, where personal and collective histories become inseparable.
W.M. 265 established the conceptual foundation for my practice. It introduced questions that continue to shape my work: how architecture bears witness to human experience, how materials hold traces of memory and care, and how acts of making can reconstruct belonging from fragments.
Side view of Installation
Installation at Root Division, side view
70” x 183”
Canvas, Burlap, Sequins, Embroidery, Indigo dye, Sequins, Acrylic