The Weight of the Taken

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Pewter, Dimension variable (13 uniques pieces)

Srishti Art, Hyderabad, July 2025

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The Weight of the Taken presents a constellation of 13 sculptural forms which engages with the idea of ontological weight that even after the function of blister packs ends, their form accumulate meaning and memory across time. 

The act of casting these objects in pewter, a material historically used for devotional artefacts and ritual implements repositions the blister pack as a kind of contemporary relic. Not a relic of sanctity, but of survival. To me, each pour captures the contours of lived, much like a fossil preserves the void left by something once alive. Resulting, each form emerges not as a mechanised reproduction, but as an organic impression—fluid, raw, and unpredictable. It becomes a material residue of being—holding the weight not of the pill, but of the decision to take it and the continuities of care it implies. Here, the emptiness of the blister pack becomes fullness, presence. 

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Ultimately, The Weight of the Taken is not just a material transformation, but a philosophical one. It reimagines waste as witness, fragility as form, and disposability as deeply loaded with ontological consequence. These small objects—now heavy, marked, and permanent—ask us to reconsider what we overlook, and what we carry even after it’s gone.