Core

I approach perception as a form of darshan - a heightened witnessing where the field of experience expands and reorganises the familiar. I work with the intensities that arise when a body meets its environment: the pressures, frictions, invitations and thresholds that shape how we inhabit space. My practice draws from this expanded perceptual field, where attention becomes a method and the act of seeing becomes a form of contact.

The body is the core of my inquiry. I treat it as a technique, a method, and an instrument that registers environments through sensation, memory, gesture and micro-adjustments. This approach understands the body as multiple and shifting -  a composite of experiences distributed across time, language, architecture, and social structures. Through this lens, every encounter becomes a site where subjectivity and environment co-produce each other.

The structure of seeing is central to this inquiry. Every perceptual moment arrives already shaped by cultural memory, spatial codes, and the subtle hierarchies embedded in the built world. Visuality becomes an active force that guides how the body orients itself -  how it deciphers an opening, anticipates a threshold, or absorbs the atmosphere of a place. Representation becomes a lived negotiation, where the act of looking redistributes meaning, depth, and relevance across the field of experience.

Within this field, the conditions of material life are constantly at play. The body moves through patterns shaped by labour, histories of use, environmental behaviours, and the density of social arrangements. These forces settle inside the body as reflexes, urgencies, resistances, and tendencies. Each gesture becomes an index of these accumulated conditions - an imprint of how the world has been shaped and how the body continues to shape it in return.

My work also attends to the interiority of the gaze - the residues, desires, and unconscious intensities that surface when perception meets memory. The gaze folds the inside and outside into each other: a glance carries histories, a pause holds hesitation, a surface evokes something unspoken. I treat these small psychic displacements as material. They reveal how attention deepens, shifts, or falters, and how the mind and the environment complicate each other through the act of looking.

The environments we inhabit are layered with long histories and inherited trajectories. Every space carries traces of decisions, migrations, ruptures, and reorganisations that continue to shape how bodies move within it. These residues become part of the perceptual field - absorbed as atmospheres, absorbed as orientations, absorbed as subtle negotiations of presence and absence. The body registers these histories not as abstractions but as lived adjustments: how one stands, how one pauses, how one navigates a boundary, how one chooses a path.

Through this expanded understanding of perception, the work becomes a site where these forces : sensory, social, historical, and experiential -  meet each other. The practice unfolds through attentiveness to these convergences, allowing the body to act as both a receiver and an agent, continually reorganising the meaning of its surroundings.