I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which this practice is situated and across which this work unfolds. I pay my respects to Elders past, present, and emerging, whose knowledge systems, both visible and unseen, continue to shape my understanding. I recognise Country as a living entity, one that holds memory, ecology, law, and responsibility. As a practitioner working on unceded land, I remain a guest, committed to listening, learning, and engaging with care. Where this work maintains a direct relationship with Country, it is approached with humility, and with an awareness of the ongoing accountability that such engagement demands.

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This practice is also shaped by my own place of origin. I acknowledge my Indian heritage, where land, ritual, memory, and everyday life are inseparable. Growing up within cultures of storytelling, making, and collective inhabitation has informed my understanding of space not as an object to be authored, but as something lived, shared, and continually negotiated. These lineages continue to cultivate a curiosity toward other ways of knowing, which remain central to this practice. The work sits within this intersection: held in tension, dialogue, and reciprocity rather than resolution.

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I am deeply grateful to those who have shaped this practice through trust, generosity, and critical guidance; to those who have offered opportunities, challenged assumptions, and sustained the thinking that led here; and to collaborators and peers whose conversations, critiques, and shared labour continue to expand the work. I also acknowledge institutions that have supported speculative, research-led inquiry.

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To my family and chosen family, thank you for grounding me, for patience, belief, and the often-unseen care that makes this work possible. I also acknowledge those whose knowledge and labour remain uncredited but deeply present within this practice.

This work exists through relationships, across Country, cultures, and time.