The Matriarch is part of a series exploring the Sikh Diaspora across generations. The larger than life portraitures sit in spaces rebirths our ancestors within cultural symbols & concepts across time and generations.

The project started in the last months of 2024 inspired deeply by The Swimming Pool as a historical socio-philosophical idea. The Public Swimming Pool particularly and its play in the American Civil Rights movement within the United States of America in the 1960’s. Yes, post The Anticolonial Conference that held so much promise in Indonesia, The Spirit of Bandung /the Bandung Conference in 1955. 

Throughout the series the artist redirects the experiences of the Globe South beyond established and continued trauma & struggles. Giving those alive and a History of true victories and obvious beauty in a world of joy, colour, bright moments and abundance. 

Taking inspiration and historical archival direction from the very popular Asian-African and African American artists the likes of Kehinde Wiley, Amy Sherald and William Kentridge to name a few she uses familial lore , personal experiences and lot of readings from historical researchers to reflect on the systematic truths and injustices on displacement, sociological, political, economical violence and trauma. 

Within these ideas she reshapes archival memory as it is often shaped by those in power by giving the invisible and often powerless a reference of dignity and acknowledgement . The artist seeks to rebuild an official version of the Truth that reinforces Power, beauty, strength and Prominence while creating something that can carry these stories forward as archival imagery .