Gut Feelings is a book designed with artist Jasleen Kaur, capturing conversations from a project reimagining the local South Asian archive in Rochdale.

Yoghurt, biryani, memories, and knowledge all pass through the stomach, especially in a South Asian household. Jasleen worked with first, second, and third-generation South Asian women and gender-non-conforming people in Rochdale, asking: can the body itself be an archive?

We designed the book that captured these conversations, with translations in Urdu and nods to everyday Pakistani household objects. Printed on seed paper to echo oral histories and natural archiving, the book was later used in a performance and buried. Its only trace today is the flowers it left behind.

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