Where Culture Fades, What Remains?
Jad se Jud, which translates to “Connect with the roots,” is a narrative exploration of cultural heritage, echoed through preservation, reinterpretation, and the act of passing on. As traditional crafts, generational storytelling, and historical memories erode, lost to time, this work reflects on restitching the fraying thread between the past and the present.
Rooted in research on cultural reconnection and guided by acts of making and remembering, this body of work explores how practice becomes a vessel for continuity, care, and revival. It reinterprets traditional Indian arts by tracing inherited rituals, curating a living archive of collective memory through process and form.
The work takes shape through a series of interactive, handcrafted objects that center rough materials as storytellers, embracing the slow, embodied nature of nostalgia. Jad se Jud seeks to renew connection and invites memory to be reimagined through touch, ritual, and form.
Multimedia, 2025
