Through many mediums, I journey to a state of tension that implies the verge of instability, or transformation. By solidifying the ephemeral, my work explores the mystical feminine spirit that lurks between harshness and fragility. My interest in contradiction comes from growing up split between India and the United States:

Beginning in Bangalore

to

Wisconsin’s severe chill that freezes even the pace of life to stagnation…

to

The Bay Area … sunny and golden, good for 8th grade

back to

Bangalore, and urban sprawl encroaching on my memory of its green…

to

Mumbai’s perspiring hustle, and escaping it in my grandparents' apartment by the national park…

And more recently,

Philadelphia, London, New York…

Its been a year since I updated this,

Currently in Los Angeles

My mind, body, and womanhood have been recontextualized by changing surroundings every few years. Now more constantly than ever.

By observing the brutal and romantic; taking place inside me and around, I design to explore identities born at the nodal point between antonyms