Residency
A practice shaped by place, time , transmission
Tracing Blue
Hampi Art Labs Residency — India — 2025
A three-month residency investigating indigo as a land-based system shaped by labour, migration, and agricultural continuity.
Situated within the UNESCO landscape of Hampi — where farming, temple economies, and stone architecture intersect — the work approached indigo not as pigment, but as a living process dependent on soil, season, water, and human care.
Through site-responsive installations and collaborations with farmers, artisans, and animal caretakers, the residency examined procession, land ownership, and material ethics within agricultural systems.
Tracing Blue repositions indigo as both historical trade material and contemporary ecological inquiry — returning colour to the logic of soil rather than market demand
Works — Hampi Art Labs Residency, India, 2025
Suspended indigo installation translating agricultural cycles and fermentation systems into spatial form.
Participatory indigo ink work addressing land ownership and seasonal sovereignty.
Agricultural land -based indigo intervention exploring working animals, crop memory, and plant-based material alternatives.
Collaborative textile developed with Lambani artisans and the mahout family within temple procession context.
Architectural intervention using rosewood and rice-field mud.
Material study combining indigo, myrobalan, and beeswax, examining interdependence and agricultural listening.
Collection of Hampi Art Labs Archive
