Project

Lockdown Diet, 2019 - ongoing

During pandemic-induced confinement, a new series of works “the Lockdown Diet” was born out of a pile of plastic packaging left over from the essentials shopping. 

In this series, I document what feels like a cultural revolution unfolding in miniature—a seismic shift captured in the quiet absurdity of a plastic lid molded with classical ornamentation. These forms—once the visual language of temples, monuments, and enduring institutions—now circulate through the world as packaging, designed for a single use.

By casting these objects in cement, I seek to reconcile the dissonance between their inherited symbolism and their contemporary context. The architecture of reverence has become the architecture of disposability. This isn’t just flattening—it’s devaluation, a stripping away of cultural memory and meaning, one object at a time.

These works hold space for that rupture. They ask what happens when the sacred becomes trivial, when cultural inheritance is reduced to marketing texture, and when forms that once held society together are absorbed into its waste. In this micro-moment—this overlooked fragment of throwaway plastic—we witness the quiet disintegration of value systems. My work attempts to make that disintegration visible, tactile, and impossible to ignore.

Exploring form, size, and different configurations allowed me to connect with my inner child while engaging in a form of an active meditation and a form of a daily ritual.  As I constantly rearrange the forms,  I am reflecting on how history is composed of period blocks (chronological units) that keep repeating. As if some BIG kid (a God concept) is playing with a finite amount of building blocks, constantly rearranging them ever so slightly. OR is it us, humans, that keep wanting to re-write history by constantly repeating it in hopes for a different outcome?