Born from the distant echoes of an upbringing seeped in the cyclical patterns of North Indian Classical music, my paintings ultimately become experiential constructions of a personal, as well as collective, history. As both Hindu and atheistic principles from my American-born childhood pervade my continuous wonder, it is through spiritualized, romanticist visions of our embedded experiences, ritualistically buried and then remembered, where I confront time, loss, and the unattainable. With dream-like, cinematic idealizations of domesticity and a lived American life painted beneath, a physical built veil rests atop each painting as a result of a psychic archeological process, a textural residue left by my endlessly repetitive seeking for meaning, truth and comfort.