In this series, composed primarily of watercolour paintings, Indian visual artist Yamuna Matheswaran explores the state of being perpetually in transit, and accompanying questions of belonging, home, and temporariness.

On the one hand, she has found that movement can offer the highest form of freedom, and a sense of belonging that transcends socio-cultural boundaries. The awareness of our limited time often leads to a more intense experience of a place. On the other hand, it sometimes leads to the inhabiting of a different sort of reality—a state of being in transit—isolated from the worlds that you physically reside in. At the heart of it all is the idea of home. Does ‘home’ have to do with relationships, history, and time spent in a place—or is it a place that allows you to fully be yourself? To what extent does this influence your need to take flight, and what are you hoping to find? What stories and places do each of us carry within us that are different from the external spaces that we inhabit?