bird wallia is an interdisciplinary artist from mumbai, india. his practice is based in a fundamental desire to understand his own body and all its possible potentials. he sees queer sex as an antidote to patriarchal and colonial structures that human relationships often exist within, and focuses on queer community and bodies as a lens through which to imagine a decolonial, speculative future.
his process involves a translating of bodily experience into physical making. he applies frameworks of bodily relationships to making processes, emphasising and exploring the relationship between his body and the tools he uses to create his work. in a world of mass production, he sees the human hand behind craft as the anti-machine, and the body as a vessel through which community can be crafted. he thinks of his work as a collaboration & relationship between himself and his materials, allowing himself to be influenced by what they ask of him. 
using a variety of craft techniques, he creates welded steel structures, handwoven cloth, and small-scale jewelry, meant to represent, adorn, touch, and act as mediums between bodies. he uses the forms of inhuman creatures, beasts, and animals to depict relationships that are othered by heteronormative structures. he aims to honor the knowledge carried by material and somatic
practice, inviting others to experience the knowledge that exists within us all.