Publications

I approach publishing as a spatial practice where pages function as sites for relation, attention, and encounter.

Bhumiputri, and other earth elements (2023) is a practice-based research monograph that investigates ecological belonging through the interplay of poetry, drawing, and embodied field inquiry. The title draws on the Sanskrit bhumiputri, daughter of the earth, to propose a non-Western framework for understanding the relationship between body, land, and knowledge, one rooted in reciprocity and attentiveness rather than observation and extraction.

The work moves across earth elements, water, soil, air, and organic matter, encountered through sustained field practice at multiple sites. Rather than treating landscape as backdrop or subject, the monograph positions the artist's body as a participant-element within living ecological systems. Poetry sequences, field drawings, ecological essays, archival fragments, and journal notations coexist on the page without hierarchy, enacting the interrelational methodology the work describes. Image and language do not illustrate one another. They listen.

As a research contribution, Bhumiputri proposes the artist book as a site of epistemological inquiry, a form capable of holding ecological, decolonial, and more-than-human knowledge in ways that conventional academic writing cannot. It documents what becomes visible when the researcher slows down, returns to the same ground, and allows belonging to emerge as a practice rather than a given. The monograph sits at the intersection of ecopoetics, interrelational artistic practice, and decolonial ecology, and forms the methodological foundation for an ongoing research inquiry into publishing practice as a form of ecological knowledge.