I started photography with those closest to me; family mostly. I carried this interest in the domestic and familial into my studies, so in some ways, this work is a continuation of my interest in those areas. The series was made during my first visit back home in two years. Due to the pandemic, both my parents had just retired before the epidemic started, and our longing and thoughts for each other grew unbearable during this period. I simply wanted to take time to look at my parents and photograph their everyday life – it is like a ritual that reintroduced me back into their routines after such a long time. During the process, this act of conscious, reversible and mutual way of looking at familial matters, inspired me to look into the construct of our family, its past and history, the less talked about negotiations, longing and intimacy, the larger social context that we situated ourselves in, and how all that had fed back into our narrative now and made us who we are.