Me with My Pets

Metaphorically a pet or Imaginary friend is my
memory whom I always carrying with me. In
my lonely fantastic world, I am continually
having conversations with them. In a way, pets
are my other internal self. This Idea arises from
the distance that is created in personal
relationships. In this work, I want to
understand how someone's memories
internally create a form and love it like a pet,
and a new story of life is created.
In this project, the sculptural dresses as well as
free-standing sculptures, represent my internal
body and various imagined non-human
forms. The dresses were made in Varanasi and
the durational live performance was executed
in Khanta village in Sonbhadra district and
Jargo village near Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh,
India. In the resulting video, I wished to create
a cinematic and dramatic which represents the
dreamlike imaginative space.