Statement
Symbolic language has always resonated with me, and art making is my attempt to speak about deep and intense moments that I have experienced. These moments exist beyond language and reason, and art feels an appropriate medium to channel these experiences. Weaving, both as a metaphor and technique, continues to be a recurring motif, as does color, symbolism and number. I have found my vocabulary in abstraction as it allows me to express what is subtle, surreal, and beyond the grasp of the rational mind.
Art has to impress upon one's soul. My background in Carnatic music and my upbringing in India have given me a relationship with structure, with the sacred, and with a particular way of listening that I carry with me in my visual art. My inspirations are wide ranging but anchored in aesthetic sensibility, philosophy and the pursuit of truth - Indian philosophy, myths and legends, indigenous art, the natural world, the unseen, the unsayable, and the divine are major influences and themes in my work. I relate to my work as a practice and as a constant seeking.