JaNamaaz (Prayer mat) This work emerged as a response to the escalating precarity faced by Muslim communities in India. Conceived as an experimental woven surface, the work is constructed using roll caps (tiny gunpowder-laced strips commonly used in children’s gunfight games) embedding latent violence directly into its fabric. It reflects a system of governance and control that operates through selective permission and regulation, producing hierarchies of belonging in which certain acts of faith are rendered second class. Rooted in the Persian origins of the word janamaz - ja meaning “place” and namāz meaning “prayer” the work repositions the place of prayer as an unstable and potentially dangerous site, mirroring how worship has become entangled with surveillance, control, and the threat of intervention in contemporary India.