Artist book Include Some, Exclude Others I, hair, fish scales, fabric, ceramics, bottled water residue, dried fish, cotton threads, found objects, pearl head pins, ashwagandha, and raw meat in vitrines on a wooden table-bed

Dimension: 75 x 35.5 inches/ 190 x 90 cm

The corporeality of the practice extends into the words of market workers, woven with strands of my own hair, into a handmade book Include Some, Exclude Others,2025; featured in the installation Table – Bed ii. Words such as “ojhri” (stomach lining in Urdu) written in multiple languages— Urdu, Arabic, Hindi and Sindhi—trace the transnational journey of a bodily fragment entangled in the global meat industry.

In Table – Bed ii, the tablescape and its utensils become mutable sites of transformation, rather than fixed objects with static meaning. The table bed serves as the repository of the observations made in the fish and meat market quite literally in a material way. The installation combines assemblages and market-sourced materials—raw ‘ojhri’, animal hide, the book, water collected from melting fish market ice, and small ceramic forms reminiscent of salami. Here, food is both a sustainer of life and a site of extraction, making the work decay, transform and age through the span of display.