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Animated in Adobe Animate using an iPad for sketching every frame. 

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There aren't many stories around Indian people who primarily communicate in English.

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There aren't many stories around Indian people who primarily communicate in English.

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Around with my father. Animation made using Adobe Animate.

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Finding an identity in relation to my father. 

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Finding an identity in relation to my father. 

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We would go every week to look to buy a land where he would set up his house and business. We lived on rent which made it difficult to establish an identity in relation with a place.

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Meditations. Animation made using Adobe Animate

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After finishing school where I had formed an identity for 12 years, I was brought back to the limited community of my home where my parents live on rent and do not speak the language of the area. This was a time where I struggled to find purpose. Part of the problem was I didn't know what culture I could supplement with my art.

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Growing up. Pulled out from a culture. The boarding school I grew up in had a unique culture to itself. Being in India, it was a confluence of British and Nepali cultures.

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A conversation with my RCA colleagues Anoushka Anand and Enzo Li. 

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Could English be used to converse our experiences?

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Reflections - the connection to the pot. 

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Reflections - the connection to the pot. 

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I find myself entering holes to find myself in relation with the outside world. Shake and tumble inside a vessel. Understand the different languages I've had to learn to fit into crowds. The challenge of disappearing languages and how we find our identities by learning the dominant world languages, in relation to its native speakers and each other, and how we produce work given these circumstances.

My homeland India, is increasingly focusing on english education. Is it good or bad? Will it have the fate of cuneiform in years to come?

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Here my character jumps inside the vessel. The walls within it collapsing. The space within symbolises isolation and reflection. The two things that I did for long periods of time since I finished school.

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We use containers to collect materials. There are wider applications of containers. Homes that hold our identities in one place. A place where we collect our identities. Through posters, paintings of others, works done by ourselves, the cuttleries and dishes, the choice of products, the paint on the wall. We evolve our identities through our homes containing our memories, works and values.

Windows facilitate us to display our best works as the outside world may catch a chance glimpse through it, and we see the world through it, facilitating us to ground our foots in our homes.

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"Stories are the cognitive tools we have evolved in order to understand and interact with the world... 'stories are one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me; does it also feel this way to you?'" - Gaia Vince, Transcendence.
We propel Culture through stories. I have grown up in different cultures and hence have a difficulty claiming myself to be wholly of one culture. I behave differently in different cultures. At least I am expected to. Many have similarly grown up in multiple cultures. Hence what culture are we propelling? What are we feeling?

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I've grown within multiple societies. The Bihari, Rajasthani, Nepalese, Anglo-Indian and Sikkimese Societies. I am trying to find a way to address the interactions a person of my appearance and way of speaking has within these socieities and how does he find a footing in any.
Grayson Perry enhances the use of pottery as a tool for social change. I reflect on this to enhance on my practice as a story-teller using animation, paintings and film to assist me in finding my voice.

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'Many of the beaker pots contain remnants of milk, and it's likely they were making yogurts, curds, and cheeses, just as nomadic herders on the steppes continue to do today. This culture changed their genes.' - Gaia Vince, Transcendence.

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The utility that a vessel provides is great.
I am using the vessel as a metaphor, as a tool to collect the experiences I had and the experiences I dreamt of in the past. Especially in a time in my life where I didn't quite know what was working in my life and not.
I want to use the vessel in a way through which I explore and make sense of my identity and experiences to inform/collect the person I am today. To discover my face and voice that tells my story.

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I am still developing ideas by repeatedly drawing starting out from one idea. Here the character is seen touching his face after looking into the mirror. He has a blank face before it, signifying his progress to an identity as he has walked up the stairs to see his face.
I am trying to find a face for my protagonist that tells my story.

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ROYAL PATRONAGE 1800-30: THE DUKE OF YORK. V&A MUSEUM, SOUTH KENSINGTON, LONDON.

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I liked how stories are told by using spaces of functional objects. On the walls, belts, vessels.

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Making a vessel. Starting off with terracotta.  

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Making a vessel. Starting off with terracotta.  

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Early Dynastic III Period, circa 2350 BCE. From Umma, southern Mesopotamia, modern-day Iraq. (The British Museum, London).

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'This is the boundary according to the monument of (the god) Shara.' This is the historical cuneiform text on this vessel, which gives the city of Umma's account of its long-running border dispute with Lagash.
I wanted my object to be something that was used for holding water. The idea made me appreciate human ingenuity. This vessel held more than water or other substances. It was used to communicate.
Going down that line I looked for other artefacts that communicated something around its surface.