This series of work consists of three oil on canvas paintings titled Night Duty. In this series, I continue my focus on labour, unposed and everyday scenes at the hospital, documented through video calls to a friend who works as a student doctor at a hospital in India. It is built on my previous work, Bangalore | Bournemouth.

The large scale is intended to translate the casual source material of FaceTime calls into a sense of space that conveys presence and immediacy. The variation from thickly built brushstrokes to diluted washes, with drips across the surface, is intended to establish tension between figuration, abstraction, and the emergence of psychological space. The colours are overall muted with a warm undertone, mostly with hospital greens and hints of blue reflecting a clinical environment.

The work investigates labour within night-shift hospital environments, by looking into virtual presence, the politics of looking, technology, the pace and rhythms of the hospital setting, and the modalities of observation and attention within the framework of the female gaze. Documentation through video calls captures unposed, everyday fleeting moments, enabling attention to interactions that structure night duties.

The three paintings form a narrative that shifts between observation, documentation and emotional proximity. While each work stands on its own, they collectively depict how labour, care and cultural identity intersect within institutional spaces.