Born in India and subsequently relocating to Canada and Berlin, Germany, my practice is rooted in transnational narratives and the psychological residue of displacement. The formative years of my childhood were spent under the care of my maternal grandmother, immersed in the lush ecology of her guava orchard—an Edenic space punctuated by rose, marigold, hibiscus, and the omnipresent neem. This garden, both literal and metaphoric, constitutes the foundational mythos of my visual language.
At the age of five, I was abruptly relocated to an unfamiliar urban environment—a rupture that introduced themes of loss, cultural dislocation, and identity fragmentation into my consciousness. My body of work can be read as an extended meditation on this original severance and the ongoing quest for spatial and emotional belonging.
I conceptualize my pieces as “stylized atmospheres”: mnemonic landscapes where memory, longing, and diasporic affect converge. The aesthetic strategies I employ are informed by my lived experience as a person of color navigating multiple cultural geographies. Through layered compositions and evocative materiality, I engage with notions of place, erasure, and the impossible return—constructing painterly sanctuaries that gesture toward a garden that now exists only in the realm of the remembered.