Inspired by film stills taken from Indian Cinema of the 1940's to 1950's, the Still Lives series disrupts the standard linear construction of the film narrative. Each of the isolated photographic images are striped to its most minimal. Manipulating and distorting production and publicity snapshots in the darkroom re-contextualizes the traditional song and dance musicals of the period. Divisions between film genres blur as comedies become dramas, revealing a darker, more subversive critic of the over the top, popular entertainment.