My Art is inspired and influenced by my cultural roots to India, my life in the United States and my background in Architecture.
I superimpose the traditional figurative drawings, geometric forms and symbolisms from ancient iconography with modern expressionism creating a cyclical journey that joins the past to the present. Merging conscious storytelling and symbolism to the subconscious realm of abstract expressionism. In my paintings I combine the East with the West, the spiritual and the aesthetic, the ancient philosophy and iconography to modern narratives.
I make drawings/sketches reflecting my thoughts, or a concept and then assemble these drawings together geometrically to create a painting, like the process of creating architectural conceptual designs.
Lately I have been exploring as a visual artist the psychological aspect of “Home” as an immigrant. I have rooted. uprooted and re-rooted across the world. Home can be the house one grows up in. It can be the physical place one resides, a city and the community. The vernacular architecture, urban or rural landscape, habitat, climate, ecology, and other external environmental factors contribute to what makes us feel at home. It satisfies our “Our Need to Belong.”
Nomad Roots painting series explores the concept of home, roots to a nomad, migrant, new immigrant from my personal perspective at the same time I question the concept of home in a more general context. As our climate changes and due to other socio-political changes, people are migrating as humans have done for centuries and our hometowns are in a constant flux of change. I want to explore these changes in the various places I have lived and loved.