This painting focuses on the Indian state of West Bengal and the artist’s ancestral roots there. The artist maps her family’s movement throughout the region over generations, incorporating photographs from recent visits to her maternal great-grandparents’ former home—once grand but now dilapidated—in Kalikapur. The work draws on imagery from the artist’s childhood journeys by train from Kolkata (then known by its anglicized name, Calcutta) to the city of Asansol, where her maternal grandparents lived. As the train neared the Raniganj coalfields, the oldest coal mines in India, she was struck by the stark change in terrain from lush green landscape and agricultural lands to barren, excavated earth. The artist recalls stories told by her grandfather, a doctor, of patients who suffered harm from years of exposure to pollutants from the mines. Today, the Aduria forest near Kalikapur is under ecological stress, and species of both plants and animals are threatened by rapid urbanization and agricultural growth in the region.