Intimate Portraits of Clothes in Waiting

You are what you wear. But are you static? Is what you wear static? When you are not wearing your identity, where do you keep it? Where do you leave it? Where does your identity sit and await you? What do your clothes speak about you when they are not on you? Intimate Portraits of Clothes in Waiting is a documentation of our intimate surroundings, or the lack of them, and how we often hoard skins that we don. The series is inspired by the fluidity of mood and interactions of people with not just other people, but also themselves, how we negotiate our identity everyday, and the residue that this process leaves. Clothes hanging left to dry, or bunched together on the tin shed veils of where you bathe, or your identity at home hanging in a dark corner of where you work―our identities are not static, because we are not static. These hundred illustrations intend to document how our overlapping identities configure in material and space as we move with, or stop in time.

The intent of the series was to further comment upon the political dynamics of the space of the individual in seamlessly expanding urban India.