This is a collaboration with Dr. Shahnaz Ahmed, the poet, my family, my friend.

Medium: Mixed media (Acrylic on canvas, paper - my birth certificate is stuck on the work, touched up with Adobe Photoshop, added voice over and animated with MotionLeap)

This work speaks about how we are branded from the time we are born. To prove who we are, we need to show our identification papers, or we need to say we are someone's somebody. We are defined by our family and society's vision of who we are expected to be, how we need to conform to the norms. But who are we?

This has been penned beautifully through the words and voice of Shahnaz. Her poem reads as follows:

A child born with an inimitable self shackled by the world branded by paper smearing the future enslaved to conform holding my soul captive