Destiny extends the form and concept of Rana’s Memory series, investigating and amplifying the results of a termite infection on untreated wood. After marking a pillar with nodes that obliquely reflect a janam patri (birth chart), Rana drilled into the wood to assess the depth of a termite infection. This resulted in an abstracted form that she perceived as an accelerated version of the wood’s “destiny.” The wood’s shadows, curves, and hollows are linear and nearly painterly, becoming the ground for fabric memory pods, as seen on the surface of wood in Memory. Suggesting a dialogue between two- and three-dimensionality as well as the vulnerability and porosity of exteriors, these works also attest to the tension between organic and manmade, and hard and soft materials. Appreciating her collaboration with the termite, and the possibility of creating through destruction, Rana developed a second work with the same process as the beginning of an ongoing experimental series.