My work begins with personal experience as a means to examine the cultural and social structures that shape how we understand ourselves and the world around us. A central focus of my practice is making visible and destigmatizing mental health conditions, particularly among women in India. Drawing on my own experience of living with a chronic mental health condition, I examine how cultural heritage, social expectations, gender, and the legacies of colonialism affect mental health and identity.
Living between India and the United States also shapes how I observe my surroundings. My experience growing up in India, where scarcity and uneven access to basic resources were highly visible, has made me conscious of consumption and waste in my immediate environment. Recent projects document discarded, lost, and forgotten objects that remain usable, examining our relationship to abundance and disposability.
I work primarily with printmaking and photography, often combining digital photography, cyanotype, screen printing, monotype, textiles, and artist-book forms. Layering, fragmentation, and reconstruction allow me to bring internal and external experiences together. In works such as Autobiography, fragmented self-portraits are woven with images and impressions of the environments surrounding periods of mental health crisis, transforming separate experiences into new, abstract wholes.
Research and experimentation are integral to my process. Rather than beginning with a particular medium, I begin by asking why I am drawn to an idea and investigating its personal, material, cultural, and historical context. The materials and processes emerge from that inquiry and become part of the meaning of the finished work.
