आत्म प्रेम, Self-Love, l’amour de soi 

This work emerges from an observed moment in an unfinished five-storey building across my window—simultaneously a construction site and a home.

The watchman lived there with his children, who moved freely through its open floors and stairwells, transforming spaces of labor into spaces of play and passage.

When one child is sent to switch off a water pump on the top floor, the building briefly becomes a site of unsupervised privacy…

What follows is not a narrative to be resolved, but a moment that resists clarity—situated between innocence and bodily awareness, exposure and concealment.

The comic does not seek to explain or judge. Instead, it records conditions of space, precarity, and environment. The unfinished structure—porous and unguarded—enabled forms of intimacy and vulnerability that rarely coexist. Attention is placed not on the act itself, but on how bodies learn and inhabit themselves within unequal social and material realities.

The work holds this ambiguity deliberately. It asks how childhood, labour, and bodily discovery intersect within spaces shaped by improvisation and instability, and what it means to witness such moments without the comfort of resolution.