Alchemy of Losses

The cardinal thematic preoccupation of Alchemy of Losses revolves around the ontological and affective dimensions of displacement. It interrogates how accumulated losses and privations have forged a protean reconstitution of subjectivity through lived phenomenological experience. Alienation, exile, migratory flux, existential desuetude, and the psychic voids born of abandoned aspirations and deferred futures form the core of my hermetic practice—an idiosyncratic chrysopoeia that transmutes privation into aesthetic expression. My peripatetic existence, rich with kaleidoscopic experiences, paradoxically deepens an ineradicable solitude. I distil these agonies into an oeuvre that serves as both a temporal vessel for reclaiming lost epochs and a palimpsest of forfeited sacrifices. Materials are intimately entwined with my corporeality: I incorporate my own hair as filament to stitch garments, and use my fingerprints as a personal drawing tool. This subverts traditional Bangladeshi embroidery, creating an autological intimacy and forging an indivisible bond between identity, body, and art.