Grand Trunk Road – Kabul to Torkham, maps the walkable route from Kabul to the border of Pakistan. This highway is part of the ancient 1700 mile, pre-3rd BCE Grand Trunk Road that connects Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. In this graphite landscape, I have mapped the route, village by village, piecing together cities, towns, villages and hamlets. I use Mes Ainak, the site of an ancient Buddhist settlement and the largest copper deposit of Afghanistan as my vintage point to survey the entire route. The process begins with scavenging for digital images on various amateur travel blogs on border tourism, real estates sites, and pinned images on Google Earth. My recent fascination with the GT Road stems from the desire to highlight various possibilities of horizontal trade and exchange within the South Asian region.

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