The artwork is titled “In The Land in Between”. It is an immersive installation that recreates a bare room overlooking the Spiti Valley as both a physical space and a metaphorical threshold. The installation is rooted in an unexpected pause, blending video footage and 35mm BnW photographs made across the village. It presents a single ‘window’ of shared gaze, becoming a meditation on learning without instruction.

The personal connection stems from his experience of arriving to teach, only to find the classroom closed and choosing to remain with no defined role or purpose. Quietly observing the world, he wondered: “what if a classroom isn’t a place with walls and blackboards, but a condition of openness?” The takeaway for the audience is a meditation on learning without instruction and presence shaped not by action, but by attention.