I love going to beaches,” artist Neha Choksi tells us. “I’ve spent hours sitting at the beach and often seen children digging into the sand. It led me to wonder why they do that.” Little did she know that she would one day connect her idle ruminations with the concept of excavation—quite literally the practice of digging into the ground—through art.

Porous Earth is the 50-year-old artist’s latest exhibition that was unveiled at Project 88 in Colaba on Thursday. It has five pieces, including a music score that lays down a set of instructions for the viewer on how to embrace the experience. “I have deliberately not issued a press release or revealed much about it. I want people to engage, to imagine, to walk through the work. Apart from the first one, also titled Porous Earth, the exhibition comprises pieces named Holdings, Held, Untimely and Are Violences Ancient?” she tells us.