The Train to Gurdaspur 1, 2025, and The Train to Gurdaspur 2, 2025, extend this collaboration into a sculptural vocabulary. Composed of cotton thread tied by the same women onto lengths of crochet cotton rope, the works form long planes of color that resemble the agrarian horizon as seen from a moving train. Up close, the atmospheric fields dissolve into thousands of knots — each marking time, labor, care, and generational knowledge. The series explores the political geography of Punjab’s train routes, which transport families between villages, markets, and protest sites, thereby embedding movement and memory into the textile itself.

Across these intertwined bodies of work, Rai constructs a practice in which land, labor, memory, and material are inseparable. Her works are not depictions of the village; they are built with it — through the hands, histories, and ecologies that continue to sustain it.