The project continues my exploration of the shifting perspectives of borders, remembering and repair. In November 2024, I was preparing to give a paper at the American Studies Conference in Baltimore on my 2024 Batwara series and my meditations on archives and memory. Through my research, I came across an article by Patrick French “The brutal ‘Great Migration’ that followed India’s independence and partition,” only to discover that the image buried in the back of my mind, had in reality been staged by the photographer Margret Bourke-White for Life magazine. Bourke-White’s online archive has the contact sheet and the cropped image of the man carrying his wife on his shoulders. Lee Eitingon, the reporter on assignment with the photographer, wrote that it took hours for Bourke –White to get the seemingly spontaneous shot of the human caravan. The contact sheet raises questions about the politics of emotions and how the colonial archives become a “contact space” for alternative readings re-inscribing memory and history. As a meditation on remembering, I wove Bourke-White’s contact sheet during my Lottozero residency (2025) in Prato, Italy.

To shift the perspective on the politics of borders and boundaries, I wove an aerial view of the India-Pakistan border of the crooked Radcliff Line which will be on exhibit at the Kranj Textile BIEN 2025 from 31.05 – 14.08 : LINK

Highlighted in Digital Weaving, Norway "What's On Your Loom" Series.