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, Infrastructure, and the Hierarchies That Travel
Cast(e) in India traces the hidden infrastructures that link India to New York City through labor that is both global and invisible. Many of New York’s manhole covers are cast in Indian foundries where caste determines who does the most dangerous work. Once installed here, those same covers are maintained by immigrant workers whose daily labor keeps the city alive.
The project connects these two worlds—workers who shape a city they may never see, and workers within the city whose contributions go unacknowledged. Paintings, stop-motion animation, and sculptural installations examine how caste and intra-racial hierarchies travel across borders, rearranging themselves in new contexts.
As global climate catastrophe accelerates, Cast(e) in India treats foundries, sewers, and streets as climate infrastructures, where extreme heat, toxic runoff, and floods are absorbed first by race- and caste-oppressed workers. It asks who is sacrificed to keep overheated cities running, and who gets to stay dry, cool, and safe.
As global climate catastrophe accelerates, Cast(e) in India treats foundries, sewers, and streets as climate infrastructures, where extreme heat, toxic runoff, and floods are absorbed first by race- and caste-oppressed workers. It asks who is sacrificed to keep overheated cities running, and who gets to stay dry, cool, and safe.
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…
“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
Global Threads, Hidden Labor, 2024
Prototype Study for No One Cares About Your Cast, 2024
No One Cares About Your Cast, 2025
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
