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English: "Frayed Continuum" by Ayesha Singh is a kinetic sculpture made of two discarded fragments of architecture, hanging on a pendulum mechanism. One element that contains traditional ornamentation and the other that references the ‘western’ ideals that began influencing ornamentation in India post-colonization. Hanging on a pendulum mechanism, both ornaments rotate freely on their own axis and are partly constrained by the movement coded into the mechanism that creates occasional disruptions and collisions. The pendulums movements layer and collapse time and histories, resulting in an alteration or erasure caused in the present, evidenced by the residue on the floor of the work. All image copyrights belong to Ayesha Singh.