As a result of nostalgia and longing, my paintings become spiritual destinations of love and domesticity that are inevitably unattainable. Each work stands as a testament to love, history and human experience, born from a lived American life along with a cultural heritage rooted in Indian classical music. They are my identity, my faith, and a reflection of my nature, moving forward while continuously looking backwards. Resulting from a psychic archeological process, the metaphysical veil on each piece serves as a mediating function between the “then” and “now”, as the painting of the past recedes and arises reconstructed into visions of a dream-like quality of the world. The veil is a marker of time, a gritty representation of the present, and ultimately a residue, left by repeated acts of longing.

The manipulative, sensual qualities of memory are evermore at play in the form of color in this latest body of work. Color in the process becomes reduced and simultaneously heightened, at times taking a seductive turn in form or its actual color. As it provokes, tantalizes and fades, stretching from the canvas underneath past the textured surface at times, the entire piece approaches a monochromatic vision of routine and uncertainty ultimately through which beauty conquers.

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