Priyageetha Dia works mainly with time-based media, delving into her own roots while researching the tropics and the history of labor in Southeast Asia. The Sea is a Blue Memory is a work of 3D animation that tells the story of an indentured laborer who travels to Malaysia with the word “Malaya” engraved on his back. Intertwining personal and historical elements into many different narratives, it recreates the wide open sea as a site of collective memory. The photographic series liquid.vision_nil.land (after MalayaRubberPlantation, Getty) is themed on workers at a colonial-era rubber plantation in Malaysia. By dividing portraits of the workers into fragments, Dia highlights how indentured (or migrant) workers were denied rights in the class-based society of the time.