Growing up, Drishti Verma was always enthralled by the epics and legendary tales of Indian mythology. It gave her a fantasy world where magic genuinely existed, separate from reality and its limitations. I Can See it if I Squint is inspired by her memories of these myths.

Through these images, Verma aims to reconstruct this world that embraces individuals’ idiosyncrasies by distorting or expanding reality. This landscape of childhood and morality stories is ripe territory for boundary-pushing perversions to take root.

Verma focuses on fictional narratives that interact with the process of deriving meaning from photographs, transforming them into metaphors or illusions. Ultimately, these photographs act as an entry point into assembled worlds. I Can See it if I Squint is momentarily held together by the lens, acting as a documentation of a destroyed object.