Tandel works with Habur stone in the Ancestors series (2026), a fossiliferous material from Jaisalmer that was once an ancient seabed, to cast oil pipes and marine life-forms in cooling, mottled rock — drawing a sharp poetics between petrocapitalist extraction and the Koli community's embattled relationship with the coastline. The stone becomes a monument to an erased ocean, connecting the geological history of the Rajasthani desert with the ecological memory of Mumbai's shores.

Elysia Hirasei, a rare Mumbai sea slug, becomes an artistic monument challenging oil wars. By transforming sunlight into energy via kleptoplasty, it critiques resource conflict and ecological collapse peacefully.