I am a Visual Artist working in the San Francisco Bay Area. I was born in India, raised in Venezuela, pursued graduate education and a career in Architecture in California before starting my Art practice during the Pandemic. I am involved in community art education programs.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My Art practice is shaped by memory, phenomenology of place, migration, and ecology. I am curious about human relationships with natural and built landscapes. I research the interconnections of lives in ecosystems from a scientific perspective while contemplating the philosophical connections between our soma and the cosmos. My paintings explore themes of female agency and experience. I use the figurative and abstract form, portraying the lived experiences as a woman through self-reflection and spirituality. Women in my art represent the creative force of nature, symbols of resilience, resistance, and transformation. As an artist I meander with my thoughts across disciplines like biology, ecology, architecture and philosophy. I aspire to render fluid transformations and interconnections of spirit, memory, and experience, forming a poetic contemplation. My work intertwines science, spirit, and stories -old stories and new ones.
I paint using watercolor on paper. Larger works on canvas are usually mixed media. My method of assembling drawings, research writings, maps, fabrics, and photographs to create mixed media works or installations is like that used in creating architectural conceptual designs.