My work explores the human individual as a living junction where histories, migrations, and spiritual forces converge. Born in India and now based in Canada, I inhabit two geographies and cultural worlds that coexist within my body and consciousness. This duality, both grounding and disorienting, forms the foundation of my practice and shapes my ongoing inquiry into identity, memory, and belonging.

Working primarily with burnt wood, oil and acrylic paint, digital prints, and drawing-based media, I investigate identity as a fluid and continually evolving condition. Rather than fixed or singular, identity is formed through movement, inheritance, and lived experience, constantly created, dissolved, and reassembled through our relationships to place, ritual, and history. My materials reflect this process of transformation: surfaces are charred, layered, erased, and rebuilt, mirroring cycles of destruction and renewal.

This cyclical understanding is influenced by Hindu ritual philosophy, particularly cremation rites in which the body returns to ash and the spirit is released to assume new form. My artistic process parallels this passage, ideas burn, fragment, and re-emerge, giving rise to new visual languages that speak to spiritual continuity across time.

In recent years, my work has expanded to examine resonances between South Asian and North American Indigenous cultures. Sparked by personal experiences of displacement and misrecognition, I began researching shared ritual gestures, spiritual cosmologies, and ancestral ways of healing that appear across both traditions. These parallels suggest that cultural memory often survives beyond geography, carried through symbols, stories, and the body itself.

My ongoing project, Parallel Dimensions, brings these connections into visual form. Through images of shamans, sacred fires, smoke, and archetypal marks, I explore the figure of the healer as a bridge between worlds, between past and present, body and spirit, the living and the ancestral. The works trace invisible threads that link distant cultures and propose identity as something migratory and relational rather than bound by borders.

Ultimately, my practice asks how ancient memory continues to shape who we are. I create to reveal these hidden continuities and to consider identity not as a singular narrative, but as a layered constellation of parallel histories, intersecting, transforming, and enduring.