As the rhythm of farmers’ lives and rural landscapes shift, compelled by socio-economic pressures to abandon their fields, the profound reservoir of indigenous wisdom is fading into obscurity. Umesh’s artwork seeks to embody the silent erosion of agricultural heritage, where tools once imbued with purpose and knowledge now lie idle, stripped of their utility and meaning. Inscribing text and Bhojpuri poetry onto forsaken traditional farming implements, Umesh combines poetry and materiality to mourn the disappearance of vernacular wisdom, inviting viewers to contemplate the cost of this disconnection. The work stands as both an elegy and a meditation, drawing attention to the rupture between humanity and the earth, tradition and progress, memory and modernity.