“Currently, grieving and queer home-making as creative acts are themes that dominate my thinking. As a child of refugees, I am interested in our ties or lack thereof to land, language and home. The collection I’m working on explores my relationship to parental figures, to both Tamil and English and to Sri Lanka. I’m trying to create new ways to obsess over the images and stories I want to write – there’s always something about my mum and our methods of communication (language/technology/silence).”