How do you comprehend the presence before you when you photograph somebody immediately after their death, where just their lifeless form remains, resembling them yet is devoid of life?

Though they won't always be the same, the photographs will still exist, along with the colours, lights, and shadows. Their image will always evoke a certain feeling or recollection, but there's a chance you'll look at it again and notice something different, something beyond what you initially perceived. A photograph, a recorded voice, or even a fleeting image - they're also remains of what was once there, as if a trace of life. It may look like the remains are all you have, but you may not know what life it can give.

“A Moment Suspended In Time” explores the metaphorical and symbolical meaning making possibilities through visuals made using found objects and how they are shaped by our understanding and the larger world around us. The work deals with liminality, memory, time, indexicality, anxieties and, how still images respond to each other in a time-based medium. There are juxtapositions that are visual as well as material in nature.

Through the process and act of making photograms (silver gelatin prints made by exposing the photo paper after placing objects on it), the work explores the relationship between light, darkness and image making, water and time. Objects like plastic butterflies, thread, sugar, mirror pieces turned away, ribbons, nails, etc. are used and the visuals question the intended use of the objects and explores their inherent symbolism. Some of these objects were chosen based on how they keep reappearing in dreams and everyday life, some based on their association with memories of death, home and love. The photo-film is made using still photographs taken on a point and shoot camera in the years 2015-16. The specificity of the time period is linked to looking for a certain vitality in those images. The photographs are recontextualised and now unfold in time, making space for new interpretations and associations.