Monica Rani Rudhar reflects on making as a way of reconnecting with inherited knowledge. Her work becomes a material response to distance — a means of accessing stories, skills and cultural memory that are otherwise held through oral history and fragmented transmission.

At the centre of her practice is an awareness of fragility: the fragility of materials, and the fragility of the histories they hold. Rudhar considers how both can shift, degrade or disappear, and how artistic practice can function as a form of care or preservation.

Her work positions objects as active carriers of memory, and in doing so, traces the continuity between labour, lineage and storytelling — where making becomes a way of sustaining connection across generations.