My artwork takes a critical view of nature and its mundane elements. Our understanding of landscape can be seen as a construction on which layers of meaning mirror our social, political, and cultural aspects. By allowing myself to be guided by the characteristics of the landscapes, I attempt to integrate the democratic vision to exhibit the mundane elements of nature such as sea, human-altered topography , deciduous trees, and so on. Through this vision, I aim to represent the mundane nature as complex and significant.
We are a collective of photographers and researchers working with our respective interests to create a common platform to bring together visual and oral stories of the Darjeeling-Sikkim Himalayas. We endeavor to strengthen this platform by bringing together art practices and research from and of the region. We believe that in doing so we can offer an alternative space to understand the Hills and its history beyond the homogenized, colonial discourses that continue to dominate the understanding of the place.