The Aftertaste of Loneliness began as a personal exploration of queerness and home: how queer bodies carry grief, memory, and longing when dislocated from their places of origin. A deeply personal retelling of displacement and the complex negotiations of ‘belonging’.
The goal is to amplify the lived experiences of queer migrants in India by creating a visual archive of documented lives and speculative visuals; a world where identity and imagination coalesce.
An attempt to decode my relationship
with my hometown through hand painting
the Five Stages of Grief over an expired photo-negative of my family.
In its current iteration, The Aftertaste of Loneliness exists as a zine (published in June 2025), rooted in archival family photos, illustrations, and contemporary photography to examine identity in the face of survival.
52 pages, centre-stapled
A5, 5.8” x 8.3”
