In October 2017, I offered a talk at the Surrey Art Gallery’s public forum on the exhibition Ground Signals. My father performed a hamd (devotional chant) during this performance. I had just spent time with my father earlier that week riding the train across Canada recreating my father’s migration from Toronto to Edmonton where he first settled in Canada. During our time on the train, rolling over the beautiful territories and lands we know as Canada, I interviewed my father, listened to his stories about relationship to the land in India, Pakistan and here on this continent. He read me poems, we wrote together and constructed a collaborative ghazal. At the Surrey Art Gallery, I offered a new work called Revelation, a video that plays on the floor surrounded by a brick structure, relating to Indian construction and ideas of home.
Revelation (2017), video installation with bricks, Surrey Art Gallery