Hema Upadhyay's *Killing Site I* is a densely layered work that combines acrylic, gouache, dry pastels, and photographs on paper with aluminium sheet, enamel paint, and found hardware materials to construct a raw and visceral urban landscape. The work reflects Upadhyay's ongoing engagement with the precarious lives of Mumbai's slum dwellers, evoking the chaos and fragility of informal settlements through its collaged textures and industrial materials. The juxtaposition of photographic imagery with handmade mark-making and salvaged objects creates a haunting tension between documentation and abstraction, memory and erasure.