Chaand Qasam/चाँद क़सम (I Swear on the Moon)
Shown at: Jodhpur Art Week, 2025

Video Loop Projection
Duration, 4’7″

चाँद क़सम/Chand Qasam is a clock of phrases written in the moonlight, reckoning lunar and cinematic consideration of how love waxes and wanes. Each word is a title from a Hindi film, reminiscent of the long deep connection with the moon in the poetry of Hindi cinema.

This clock accounts for the surges of the heart and the tides of the moon, unravelling questions, and the memory of love’s peculiarity and passion. What winds the clock? What pulls at love, as the moon pulls at the sea? One can swear at the moon for the answers.