Jhal Muri Seller (Fragments of a Dream)

Arranged as a quiet grid of vignettes, the work reads like an archive of half-remembered incidents—silhouetted bodies, clipped documents, and spare line drawings hovering on paper that already feels weathered by time. The restrained palette and generous negative space turn each panel into a pause, while recurring motifs of outlines, stitching-like marks, and sealed containers suggest systems that classify, confine, and erase the individual. By juxtaposing bureaucratic fragments with tender, almost childlike rendering, the piece stages a tension between lived presence and recorded evidence, inviting us to sense how identity is constructed through what is filed away as much as what is left blank.