Just before leaving home in the UK to travel to Bihar I was, by chance, given a small envelope at an art event based on Herman Hesse’s novel Siddhartha, the tale of the spiritual journey of a South Indian prince, based on the life of a man, who became Buddha at the foot of a tree in Bodh Gaya, Bihar.

The ‘address’ typed on the front of this small brown envelope was, ‘Where else might your path lead you?” Struck by the serendipitous timing of this modest gift, I decided to take the envelope with me to Bihar, where I kept it close by me, and regularly took photographs of my hand holding it in some of the many places we visited, including eventually beside the Bodhi Tree in Bodh Gaya, which for me, was the highlight of our research tour.The little envelope, became like a locative device I could employ to help me find resonant co-ordinates to navigate the rich landscapes that opened up during the residency, and also to consider the concept of synchronicity, which Carl Jung asserts,” … reveals the meaningful connections between the subjective and objective world.”