“Mistry’s engagement with elasticity spans the bind of tension and the ricochet of release. In the case of the rubber band, release always goes hand in hand with a return. Can we think of this bounce-back as a response? Or should we understand it as a failure to deliver—the inability of a message to reach its intended recipient, like when an email bounces back?” Excerpt from an essay on Abhaya Mistry by Dagmar Bosma