For Sai Gitanjali Poluru, the act of making is a dialogue with fragility. Working with terracotta, printmaking, drawing, and paper installations, she treats materials as vessels of memory... porous, delicate, and resilient all at once. Her practice is deeply tied to the poetics of water and earth. Paper becomes skin, carrying impressions like scars or breath. Clay. becomes body, absorbing touch and fracture, then fired into a quiet permanence. Through repetition and layering, her works suggest that memory is never still, it seeps, erodes, and reforms like tides.
In her installations, terracotta fragments, folded papers, and drawn lines converge as archives of the self. They speak of the body as both container and landscape, a fragile terrain where silence and survival coexist. For Sai, the "empty box" becomes a reservoir: holding what lingers, what resists containment, and what flows beyond boundaries.
Her practice listens more than it declares, attentive to traces, gestures, and the delicate relationship between material and meaning. Each work is less an object and more a moment suspended, a memory reformed in clay and paper.
