Created during a two-month residency at PADA Studios, ‘Time Horizon’ is a diptych of handwoven panels that maps material ecology, colonial history, and climate action through textile. Hand woven with a needle, using diverse industrial and coastal waste materials around PADA such as discarded plastic shipping bags, jute, cables and coastal materials like fishing rope from Goa, the woven panels seek to reveal a history of movement and resilience.

The works were developed in studios that formerly operated as a jute factory within the old Companhia Union Fabril (CUF) Industrial Park in Barreiro, Portugal. The primary material being jute, a fiber historically cultivated in Bengal and imported to Portugal via colonial trade routes through Goa - the region where Khosla is based, still holds physical, spatial and cultural traces of its historical trajectory. By weaving jute with contemporary industrial and coastal waste, the works intend to hold these historical tensions in suspension - neither resolved nor erased, but made legible as form.

Through experimental engagement with discarded materials, the weavings resist stasis. Forms emerge, recede and return, keeping the works active and responsive to their immediate environment. This material instability is intentional. As jute warps against cables and plastic slips against fiber, the panels uncover obscured narratives of colonial circulation, labour and ecological extraction embedded within the grid. In doing so, Time Horizon proposes new hybrid material systems - not as speculative design, but as urgent, tactile responses to the pressing need for repair and reuse in the context of climate change mitigation. 

Materials:
Discarded jute fiber, plastic cables, deconstructed fishing rope, industrial plastic waste, plastic bag strips, found packing material, handwoven around canvas panels.