In વ્હાલી (Vhali) Beloved,  Raina Pahade navigates the liminal spaces of gendered belonging within the South Asian diaspora through a critical lens informed by intersectional feminism. Drawing inspiration from the historical seclusion of women in zenanas, Raina reclaims and reinterprets these spaces as sites of empowerment and agency. Raina constructs a visual narrative that subverts colonial and patriarchal narratives of confinement and control through the strategic use of acrylic and oil paints in conjunction with traditional materials such as sari fabric and bindis from their mother, grandmother, and aunts. By situating themselves within this reimagination of all-female spaces, Raina invites viewers to reflect on the intersectionality of gender, ethnicity, and class, disrupting normative narratives and paving the way for new modes of representation and expression. Rethinking the zenana, they examine the sacredness of touch and adornment in all female cultural spaces they have been placed in from their own life. Constructing their body (ies) from sourced sari fabric surrounded by a background inspired by the fluid forms of Agnes Pelton, they aim to capture the healing these supposedly gendered spaces offer as they rearticulate what femininity means to them.