I created कुंडली / Kundli while reading about Tantric cosmology, its geometry, and the interconnectedness of the human body, the planet, and the entire universe. I used to think of mythology as just stories of faith and morality, but I began to see it as an allegory of ancient scientific and historical data. The stories in astrology, for example, are allegories of celestial movements, converted into memory devices that have survived for thousands of years beyond scripts and languages. 

But so much hasn't survived time, leaving parts of our story forever fractured. We live in a world of displaced artefacts, controlled narratives of history, and colonial erasure, all of which are compounded by my own biases and limitations in understanding what is sacred and what is real. 

Kundli explores this feeling of engaging with something that feels intense and eternal, yet you can't fully see or grasp it. The artwork is an unmarked Vedic birth chart, which traditionally has 12 segments that signify different parts of our lives. In this chart, although intricately filled with lines, the segments are left incomplete, as if burnt from the middle. The drawing doesn't ask or confirm if these ancient stories are true. It says that the truth remains inaccessible, no matter how much we try to understand it.