In Pieces 

This is an ongoing research project that delves into memory loss/suppression as a result of developmental trauma. 

The work is inspired by my lost and broken memories of my mother’s collage book, which she had made while growing up in 1970s India. After I was born this book became my object of interest and I would play with it all the time as a child. However, it was lost due to my parents' abrupt separation when I was seven. As the years went by, my brain lost memories from before the traumatic event, including the memory of this book.

A few years ago, as I became aware of my mental health conditions due to developmental trauma and started working towards processing my past, some memories started resurfacing, one of which was of this collage book. Upon confirming the existence of such a book with my mother, I began creating samples of what its pages could have looked like and experimenting with photograms (cameraless imagemaking) reminiscent of the flashbacks I had encountered over the years.