Materials contain entire worlds, they hold stories, they have lineages. When we observe them, we witness their history. This show reflects on material memory. In the attempt to speak of my own caste history, I see myself returning to materials, as only they can express the enormity and scale of time. Tar is one such ancient material. It has been used in punishment, medicine, ceremony and masonry; tar roads a symbol of wealth and privilege, tar is a material of labour and the division of castes. This show features a suite of new experimental works, that have been created from transferring and “peeling” the surface of paintings onto hessian with tar, in a process similar to the “strappo” method of preserving frescoes.