"I was in search of a language -  

not my mother tongue,

nor one of the many spoken in India 

the country I have lived in for years.

Words, I came to realise, are not enough

to grasp what lies beneath a language:

the culture.

My search focused on a visual language instead, a shared language,

or at least a language that brings together

elements of both my worlds.

I was not seeking contradiction,

not a confrontation between one and the other,

but rather the quiet space in between -

an unexplored realm,

a visual dialogue between cultures."