Video and photography allows for an experience of immediacy with one's surrounding: intimacy through mediation. Experimenting with images and sounds thus gleaned, I resolve to absorb the fragments of the everyday through a free associative manner of shooting and editing. It involves playing with images that don't merely represent the physical space and reality. Rather, it involves working through memories and emotions invested in the space, as well as the experience of shooting (then, there) and editing (now, here). What seems like disparate elements need to come together and engage in a dialectic in order to allow the very experience of living. It is equally important to come to an understanding of this space not merely as imagined and invested with memories, but more so that this space of imagination leaves ample space for imagination to come about on the part of the viewer's experience.

My performative projects involve everyday chores as the platform for inter-personal relations and interactions with peers and people from the Buffalo community. Coming from a traditionally communal society of Kathmandu, it has been challenging to adapt to the fundamental shifts in Western concepts of private/public spaces and activities. Hence, I take my everyday activities either out into the public sphere or into people's private spaces as a way to put myself and participants in a rather awkward situations of having to confront some of these issues.