CHILDREN OF THE SNOWY PEAKS

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Children of the Snowy Peak is an ongoing experimental multimedia project born from my personal journey of rediscovery—as an Indigenous Lepcha person returning home to Sikkim after years of distance and disconnection.

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Rooted in memory, mythology, and landscape, this work navigates Lepcha cosmology, where nature, myths, and stories co-exist in sacred harmony. Through photographs, sound, text, archives, and community collaboration, it explores the in-between spaces where spiritual beliefs and lived reality blur. From memories passed down through oral stories and ancestral mythology, and those shaped by our current reality—standing at the edge of nation-building, capitalism, and climate crisis.

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The project is based in Dzongu valley and along the Teesta River in Sikkim—a landscape revered and protected by Lepcha communities for generations yet increasingly threatened by hydropower expansion and ecological instability. By drawing from oral traditions, ancestral knowledge, and environmental movements like “Save Teesta,” the work reflects on identity, resilience, myth and our sacred relationship with the land. It is an attempt to invocate the collective memory of our past, present, and the unknown.