Born from the distant echoes of an upbringing steeped in the cyclical patterns of North Indian Classical music, my paintings emerge as experiential constructions of a personal, as well as collective, history. Rooted in an American childhood shaped by both Hindu and atheist principles, my work is guided by a quiet but pervasive wonder: a lifelong reconciliation with impermanence, inheritance, and the fleeting nature of existence. Gently threaded through this exploration are the peripheral complexities of cultural displacement and assimilation—subtle negotiations of identity that, at times, give rise to moments of unexpected resonance, tenderness, and beauty.
Through romanticist visions of lived experience—buried, fragmented, then resurrected—I confront the shifting terrain of time, the ache of loss, and the perpetual distance between desire and fulfillment. Dream-like and cinematic, my painted idealizations of domesticity and inherited identity unfold slowly beneath the surface through a physical veil—built from ritual excavation—settled atop each piece. This veil, textural and residual, becomes a testament to the human impulse: an endless yearning to seek meaning, to make sense of memory, and to find comfort in what was once familiar and now unattainable.