Iron has a connection to the human blood and particularly labourers’ lives, so for me, rust is like the history of the person and the tools. I imagine the remaining rust from the iron tools or machines as the past of the object.

I have been making work of labour and observing the traces of labour in many different paces. During my visit to Verdant Work Textile Heritage Museum I saw there were lots of huge iron machines and it reminds me of when I used to visit Kolkata from Patna and many times we used to cross the railway yards where I saw the rusty railway tracks and huge old ships in the River Hooghly. The interesting part of this material was the natural transformation because of water; the water from the rain and the river.