2025
120” x 96” x 24”
cast aluminum horse head, vinyl/aluminum chair, security dome, laser cut steel with handwritten dots (traced from 1987 journal), crocheted saree, cast aluminum fabric, carved drywall rat tail, extruded ceramic handwriting, cast aluminum rat tail, strapping from beach chair, chrome cut vinyl, braided saree, transparency film, threaded rod, 1987 journal on bent steel shelf, plasma cut steel of hand drawn kolam pattern, stanchion with handwritten knitting pattern, misc filing cabinet hardware
I have it in my mind that my mother named me after the doctor who delivered me or a customer at the bank she worked at, and that my family did not have a last name to write on my birth certificate—or something like that.
There is a certain desperation that comes with the lack of a last name. This work follows a perceived absence, mapping its genesis using fragmented and misconstrued evidence from old family photographs, ancestral lore, and self-inflicted omens. Naming becomes a fluid and expansive declaration of existence. Hinged upon approval from authority, whether governmental or familial, I argue that bureaucracy and superstition are two sides of the same coin.
No given name comes from tracing and assembling out of this lack as a way to fill in the gaps—the tension between hope and validity, between being the subject and being subjected.
2025
cast aluminum horse head, saree, vinyl chair, security dome
2025
120" x 96” x 24”
Plasma cut steel, braided fabric, laser cut steel with handwritten dots (traced from 1987 journal), stanchion with handwritten knitting pattern, transparency film
2025
carved drywall, cast aluminum fabric with patina, plasma cut steel, filing cabinet hardware, extruded ceramic, beach chair stripping
2025
threaded rod, nut, laser cut steel with handwritten dots (traced from 1987 journal), filing cabinet hardware, carved drywall
I am thinking about you
2025
24” x 24” x 11”
transparency film, threaded rod, nuts
2025
1987 journal on bent steel shelf, threaded rod, magnet, braided fabric, transparency film, ceramic
2025
extruded ceramic text on stanchion
2025
42” x 16”, 16” x 12”
aluminum blind, laser cut drywall, cast iron brick pattern
2025
42” x 16”
aluminum blind, laser cut drywall