Ngan and Nilnil

Ngan and Nilnil, the two nodes here, are traversing the temporal soup of history - a notion of time where details of past, present, and dreams have been mixed up after a great deluge, allegedly concocted by  the slow-distancing moon and a chaotic climate. Amidst decaying remnants of governmental infrastructure, archives and an all-encompassing wild growth, N&N chance upon visions, anecdotes, documents and rumours through a range of sources. These images deal with a sense of ambiguity, its relation to the unknown and the mysteries N&N choose to pursue. In some ways, Ngan is a river and Nilnil is the ocean. This is about what lies between them, the estuary, in a forgetful world with sullied memories. 

The work delves into the reclaimed Khazan lands and tidal sluice gates in Goa through a combination of media. They explore its architecture, maintenance, materials, and stories related to these structures, intertwined with my interest in themes of shared resource management - its history and contemporary situation, spec-fic, reverse travelogues, cartography, and ideas around amnesia. Living amidst the sluice networks, I have been slowly constructing a personal archive comprising stories, recordings, drawings, and found objects. I intend this ongoing process to grow and manifest in diverse forms over time, sharing a nuanced perspective on the environment and interspecies narrativity focusing on the language of the estuary, which carries a massive repository of stories of crossings - both of exchanges and exploitation.

Above is  a selection of paintings, drawings and photographs created over the  years.