Kartika Menon has created artworks based on fieldworks that superimpose the memories of the land with her own memories. In the meantime, she organized events to treat others to curry and chai. With her outstanding communication skills, no matter where she went she was familiarly known as “Karuchan.” Tomoko Kanayama asks Kartika Menon of Indian descent about her formative experience as an artist and about her present activities.