No One Cares About Your Cast, 2025, 40 × 60 in, Oil & Acrylic on Cotton Canvas
A large-scale portrait of an NYC manhole cover rendered as a body marked by labor and endurance.
Cast(e) in India
Labor, Climate Infrastructure, and the Hierarchies That Travel
The project connects these two worlds. Workers who shape a city they may never see, and workers within the city whose contributions go unacknowledged. This projects honors the value and dignity of its unseen workers.
As global climate catastrophe accelerates, I treat foundries, sewers, and streets as climate infrastructure, where extreme heat, toxic runoff, and floods are absorbed first by race- and caste-oppressed workers. The climate crisis is also a crisis of empathy and distance: the work asks who is asked to breathe the particulates, endure the heat, and live near slag/runoff so that other people can walk the streets without noticing what’s beneath their feet.
As global climate catastrophe accelerates, I treat foundries, sewers, and streets as climate infrastructure, where extreme heat, toxic runoff, and floods are absorbed first by race- and caste-oppressed workers. The climate crisis is also a crisis of empathy and distance: the work asks who is asked to breathe the particulates, endure the heat, and live near slag/runoff so that other people can walk the streets without noticing what’s beneath their feet.
Not-enoughness travels: Not Brown enough in Delhi, India, not Black enough in Brooklyn, USA, Not White enough in Boston, USA
—same caste code, new ZIP…
“HEY WALKMAN, ARE YOU WHITE ENOUGH?”
A Stop-Motion Satire
A stop-motion satire where two pedestrian-signal figures compete to be the whitest icon on the polluted New York’s streets.
Drawing on histories of Irish racialization in England and early America, the film reveals how whiteness continually reorders itself—deciding who becomes the “inferior race" or "low caste” within its own structure and who remains excluded.
Using humor and infrastructure as its stage, the animation exposes how hierarchy mutates across cultures.
A stop-motion satire where two pedestrian-signal figures compete to be the whitest icon on the polluted New York’s streets.
Drawing on histories of Irish racialization in England and early America, the film reveals how whiteness continually reorders itself—deciding who becomes the “inferior race" or "low caste” within its own structure and who remains excluded.
Using humor and infrastructure as its stage, the animation exposes how hierarchy mutates across cultures.
Installation View
Paintings, Installation, & Works on Paper
These works function as material studies—exploring erasure, imprint, pattern, and the residue of labor. Surfaces echo industrial textures and the pressures carried by urban infrastructure, while the forms reference bodies shaped by work, weight, and endurance.
Installation view 1, 2024
No One Cares About Your Cast, 2025
Global Threads, Hidden Labor, 2024
Prototype Study for No One Cares About Your Cast, 2024
The Cost of a Day’s Work, 2024
The Cost of a Day’s Work, 2024
Lamp (Diya) Honoring Invisible Humans
Installation view 2, 2024
