M40

The M40 series emerged during regular road trips from my London home to Manchester, my husband’s childhood home. The idea surfaced that this was the contemporary landscape that many urbanites now exclusively experienced in shuttling between cities; the countryside and the motorway whizzing by a car window. Studies suggest we spend 6 months of our lives in traffic jams.

The series also explores the idea of home being somewhere other than where you live. What happens when one begins to feel a foreigner in one’s own place of birth? Does home transplant or remain rooted? Travel or migration is an age-old practice, but in this global village with trans global marriages and families spread worldwide, the time spent commuting only adds to the confusion of where one feels they belong.