Sky Colony

My practice explores the psychological imprint of space, how environments, especially urban ones, shape perception, movement, and memory. Growing up in Patna and later moving through cities like Singapore and London, I became increasingly aware of how the built environment both reveals and erases human experience. Sky Colony is born from that tension, a body of work that maps the disorientation, control, and hyper-logic embedded in contemporary cityscapes.

My visual language spans moving image, photography, sculpture, and painting. In Sky Colony, I film from worm’s-eye view angles, capturing towering architectures that frame, and often consume, the sky. These vertical fragments are printed on aluminium plates, laser-cut, and layered like debris or relics, evoking both construction and ruin. The use of UV printing, metal, and precision cutting mimics the sterility of urban planning, while the pacing of the video work references the hypnotic flow of modern life, people moving through infrastructure as data points more than bodies.

At the same time, my painting practice runs parallel, offering a counterpoint. My paintings are saturated, tactile, and intuitive, often referencing miniature traditions, wayfinding systems, and imagined geographies. They reflect a desire to reclaim spatial agency, to visualize maps that are personal, mythic, or emotional. This contrast between mechanical visual systems and sensorial, painted surfaces speaks to the core of my inquiry: What does it mean to be visible in a city that’s designed to flatten difference?

Sky Colony is not only a critique of urban form, it is also a meditation on belonging, surveillance, and the quiet violence of order. It invites viewers to slow down, to look up, and to consider what lies beneath the smooth surfaces of progress.