 Art is an important part of the cultural landscape of any city. Art is something that needs to exist to be able to open people's perspective in multiple different directions. Minescapes is a project undertaken by The Welcome Trust and I'm an artist in residence at the Museum of Art and Photography. We are multiple artists who are working for this project and we are all trying to address what minescapes actually means to us. At the same time, address the concerns around mental health. Mental health in India, there is a certain kind of taboo around it. With this project I'm hoping to address and at the same time try and create these safe spaces where it is easy for us to express ourselves and at the same time use that space to kind of further talk about and bring more awareness about mental health to create this sense of community and to also know that we are there for each other. We do stitching activities where we sit together and stitch text and multiple different stories. We've started with stitching their own name. The moment they start stitching they see their name and then they feel the sense of identity, the sense of like, oh I am not really at the time to see myself and it's so beautiful to see. The act of stitching is also like repair, you know. There's a certain mayor in which we are trying to bring together and create a certain togetherness in the fabric of the city. With regards to the space I'm working with six Anganwadis in the area. Anganwadis are government recognized bodies which is primarily a scheme by the government to make sure that women and children are taken care so there are multiple different programs that run in these spaces all the way from education to nutrition to taking care of pregnant women. One of the things that we are also doing at these Anganwadis is installing swings so that the women have a time to just be a child again to be able to move away from family chores and house chores and to take some time off for themselves. It's a space of care, it's a space to slow down, to reflect, to share their stories. A lot of women are coming back and they keep coming back to us saying let us know when the next workshop is, let us know when we can start working together again. That's why today I think we've had 200 women have attended these workshops. Things cannot change overnight. For example if mental health has very strong roots of having a certain kind of taboo it's not going to happen overnight saying okay everything is going to change it will take its own course and it will take its own time. But I do believe that art can make a change.