Traversals

NSCAD - 2012

The works in ‘traversals’ are created by stripping down the suitcases and backpacks to the point when only the interior and skeleton of it remains. The choice of suitcases and backpacks in this body of work, are used as a metaphor to address the state of traveling, and travelers’ body. The approach of stripping down the luggage was taken to draw a parallel for psychological space created with the environment of airports.

Through the treatment of my material I aimed to look at the anxiety and stress of the body, which goes through several performances of being touched, scanned, stripped check, cavity searched or been held for endless hours of interrogations