As an architect Waqif has always been fascinated with concrete shuttering structures, its ‘jugad’-ness, although haphazard, is utility-based. He is also inspired by shadi-pandaals and the Bengali migrant labour that construct them in Delhi. These structures act as a base, a skeleton, they are not the objective but a means to another. Here the bamboo was reused, just as it was after this installation; but during the exhibit the bamboo was the Kohinoor, the object.

The ambience of the space, the introverted-ness, claustrophobia, anti-socialness; blandness, gaudiness, uncomfortableness were all of vast importance. Everyone lives in their own protected spaces, not only physically but also figuratively: who they meet, what they do, and what they talk about dominate how they exist. Wasif aimed to force the viewer to encounter a new space that compelled them to behave extraordinarily, to rethink, to doubt, and to even dismiss their habitual ways of being.