My works, rooted in identity, investigate inherent connectivity and explore the balance between fragility and strength. I work with saris left to me by my mother, fibers that carry the presence and resilience of the women in my lineage. Their histories are embedded in these materials, serving as both personal inheritance and symbolic thread.
I re-contextualize these fibers with wire and paper to create nets, paintings, and installations. I use stitches in netting/lacing, without a needle or substrate, to construct works that hold space while remaining open and permeable. These hand-formed structures speak to mending and reassembly, where the negotiation between wholeness and fragmentation becomes visual and tactile. My practice becomes symbolic of repair. It raises deeper questions of fragmentation, belonging, and the invisible ties that shape us.
Three conceptual frameworks guide the work: Weight, and the distribution of it, refers to physical gravity and the inherited, epigenetic weight held by material. Waveform speaks to the space between interactions, where potential and resonance reside. Grid provides order, compartmentalizing connection, while also recognizing the significance of the spaces in between.