A Khākās in Urdu means a faint outline or sketch that may not be complete.

 

Food Memory Portraits at Zaikanama translate spoken memories into brief, almost ethnographic sketch of people. Participants describe a meal, a kitchen, or a moment around food, through which an image gradually emerges as the personal story is being narrated.

 

These sketches are not illustrations. They function more like visual field notes.

 

Together they form a quiet archive of domestic memory.