As Bengali we enjoy having ‘Shutki’, ‘Vuri’, ‘Motka’, ‘Moa’, ‘Hawai Mithai’ but would rarely admit of loving these foods in public. There is an element of discomfort, inferiority associated with admitting that we enjoy these traditional foods. These foods are rooted in our cultural identity. These foods do not fall under the category of global commercial “cool” “innovative” food culture we are familiar with. We can’t think of eating these traditional foods as a prerequisite for living an aspiring life. Neoliberal economy contributes in cultural homogenization and devaluation of traditional culture. This impact is felt on traditional food culture as well. My work ‘Tongue Tied’ tries to address the stigma around appreciating traditional Bangladeshi food that shapes our identity. During the second lockdown in June in Dhaka, I collected some of these foods in my studio and immersed myself into making sculptures. At times they took the form of talisman and sometimes a strange device made in a lab in the 1900’s. On the stage of my imagination, they appeared as the pomegranates inside which the life of fairy tale monster is hidden, as the fish swimming in the lake of miraculous power, sometimes as the doves who can foretell future.