My studio practice explores my move from India to England, and the layers and juxtapositions arising from tensions between the past and present, sadness and healing, freedom and loneliness, preservation and loss. I draw from the archival of old family photographs taken before I was born – representations of a life lived without me, yet impacting my experiences and identity today. Through this archival process I have discovered a pattern of parallel photographs across generations. These have served as starting points for my complex, layered installations using the translation of images to represent the interplay between the past and the present in relation to generational patterns and individual identity. Old family photographs are edited and erased  through animated collages, illuminating parallels between past generations. The simple, ephemeral and fluid animated figures are juxtaposed with the physicality and detailed nature of the collages and screenprints on fabric. These represent the past as something that has ended, to be looked back at and made sense of. However, the animations are a representation of the present and future full of potential – an identity not yet fully formed. The projection of videos in a dark space creates the sense of in-between-ness felt in an identity created through generational patterns yet shifting into something new outside of them, stuck in an infinite loop of neither here nor there.