On floor:

Pillars of Salt

Installation. 2025

Unfired red clay treated with sea salt, charcoal, sandalwood paste, loess, wood ash, baking soda, copper-vinegar solution, coffee grounds, glaze, dandelions, and marigolds, wood, unknown metal; digital prints on backlight media; air pump, vinyl tubing, hose clamp, electric toy pipe organ, electric tanpura, taal, gungurus, contact microphones, single-board microcontroller, distortion pedal, audio receiver, speaker, and cables; wood, soundproof padding 

Projected video:

Fugue State

2025. Video, color, sound, 10 min. 

Video from BBC; Audio from a radio interview with Shanta Rao with Bhaskar Yesupriya, August 3, 1967. An All India Radio, Bangalore Production © and ℗ 2021.

On monitor:

Shikar

2025. Video, color, sound, 10 min.

Featuring excerpts from The Victoria & Albert Museum’s conservation assessment of Tipu’s Tiger, which is in the museum’s collection; expert playing “Rule, Britannia!”  on the instrument, 2019; Lord Reading, the Viceroy of India, goes on a tiger hunt in Gwalior, India from the Reuters archive, 1923.