My practice centers on the individual as a concrete node, an intersection where abstract global and local forces converge. This inquiry is rooted in my lived experience as an immigrant. Born in India and living in Canada, I inhabit two geographic and cultural realities that exist on opposite sides of the world yet overlap within my internal space, within my body and mind.

This duality informs both my personal and artistic identity, shaping an ongoing negotiation between belonging, displacement, and transformation.​

I investigate the tension between the image and its construction, where the body, the surface, and the structure of painting exist in a constant state of negotiation. Across my work, the human figure appears as both presence and trace, formed through processes of burning, imprinting, and erosion. I work with burnt wood, oil and acrylic paint, digital prints, and drawing, often integrating new media. The act of burning is central to my process, functioning as both material transformation and metaphor. The body is not depicted as fixed or complete; instead, it carries the marks of time, memory, and experience, becoming a site where identity is continuously inscribed, erased, and reformed.

A recurring gesture in my work is the disruption of the pictorial surface. Peeled layers, exposed stretcher bars, and fractured planes reveal what is typically hidden, collapsing the boundary between illusion and material reality. By opening the painting, literally and conceptually, I both question and extend its authority. The structure behind the painting is not secondary; it becomes an active presence. The exposed stretcher emerges as a visible scaffold, an analogue for the frameworks of the self: biological, cultural, and psychological, around and through which dynamic forces circulate.​

In some works, I introduce visual languages that reference systems such as genetic coding, suggesting another dimension of identity, one that is inherited, biological, and universal. Yet while life can be mapped and reduced to data, the lived body resists such containment. It carries histories, scars, and spiritual dimensions that exceed measurable systems. This tension between code and embodiment reflects my broader interest in the human search for spiritual and political equilibrium within a multicultural world.​

This series explores identity as a cyclical process of creation, destruction, and renewal. Influenced by Hindu funeral rituals, where the body is reduced to ash, releasing the Jiv-Atma, the subtle self, to take on a new form, my artistic process mirrors this transformation. An idea takes shape, evolves through material engagement, and gives rise to new forms and meanings. Each work becomes part of an evolving continuum rather than a fixed conclusion.​

In a rapidly changing world, identity is never stable or complete. It is continuously reshaped through lived, sensory interactions with people, places, and time. Through my work, I seek to make this process tangible, revealing identity not as a static condition, but as a sentient, evolving reality.