Illustration

Bad News

Bad News explores the dual reality of emigration as a means to support family abroad. The common notion of moving abroad is for a brighter future for one’s family, but the physical distance has limitations to the amount of support that can be given... More

Illustration

Chicken

In memory of my childhood pet chicken in Kerala that my grandmother cooked for dinner once I returned to Canada.

Illustration

God's Own Country

Comparing Kerala’s tourist houseboats to emigration ships of Komagata Maru.

Illustration

Love Straight From the Hands of God

My dad is the youngest of 6, all of whom were in college/married with kids when he was born. The age gap was significant enough that my aunt was pregnant at the same time as my grandma. Since my aunt's son and my dad were the same age, she would... More

Other

Nostalgia

A conglomerate of pop culture references from the West and childhood memorabilia from growing up in an immigrant household.

Mixed Media

Partition

Embroidery piece exploring the history of tattooing and partition in India.

Other

The Sabzi Mandi Terrace

On diaspora building community in unlikely spaces, from Sabzi Mandi to the front of the house after every function.

Work by

Julia Mathew

““Imposter Syndrome” explores the complexities of second generation immigrant identities through the duality of simultaneously being a citizen in one land and having roots elsewhere.”