Statement

As a transcontinental transplant with roots across India, Ireland, NYC, and Mexico, I have led a life shaped by code-switching and cultural paradox. Consequently, my work probes at the edges of so-called identity and borders – be it political, cultural, or ecological. Broadly speaking, the themes of my practice confront the systems of power that define and control notions of belonging: nation states, race & caste constructs, class & gender divides, to name a few.

Working primarily in clay, an endlessly fluid and responsive medium, I approach form as a narrative vessel, and surface as an atmospheric wrapper that is open to interpretation. My background in interdisciplinary design and film informs both the aesthetic and narrative quotients of my clay sculptures. Abstract-figurative or biomorphic forms emerge through a hybrid process of wheel-thrown and hand-built techniques. When I'm sculpting, free-form gesture and intuition tend to lead without much premeditated design. Often, writing (more than drawing) informs my making process. Sometimes sculpted form and written story evolve together in a continuous feedback loop until it becomes unclear which gave birth to the other. This approach helps me move the work beyond my own lived experience, towards a knowing that surpasses geography and individual identity.

The emotional register of my work arises from unnameable currents of rage, grief, and tenderness—echoes not just of our turbulent era, but of time flattened across millennia. My sculpture practice becomes both exorcism and myth creation at once: it helps me transform collective despair into vitrified stories that I hope one day will be fossilized into our planet, beyond our existence.