A central focus of my practice is making visible and de-stigmatizing 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 the scarcity of resources leads to everything being reused, recycled and repaired, has made me conscious of privilege of taking access to these resources for granted and the casual attitude towards replacing rather than repairing or reusing in my current adopted home. 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 several processes. Layering and fragmentation allow me to construct a sense of the internal and external experience 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.
