Ki sauka lafiya

Ki sauka lafiya ( translates to I hope you arrive safely(female)) is a wood assembly relief sculpture work, that interrogates identity as an ongoing and contingent process, shaped through labour, migration, and memory. Centred on the figure of a woman carrying a basket, it invokes the act of bearing and transmitting cultural heritage, wherein the basket functions as a vessel for history, tradition, and lived experience.

As this passage unfolds, fragments are unavoidably lost, suggesting the impossibility of wholly preserving cultural memory. What remains is gathered and reconstituted, pointing to a subjectivity formed through both inheritance and absence.