My practice explores landscape as a language through which memory, transformation, and the rhythms of life become visible. Rather than depicting specific places, I construct imagined environments where rivers, forests, mountains, rocks, roots, and other organic forms move beyond their physical presence to suggest how experience is carried, accumulated, and continually reshaped.

I connect these forms to the body and to the cycles of life, seeing nature not as a backdrop but as a living extension of human experience.

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My practice is rooted in traditional Indian tempera painting on handmade wasli, which I prepare myself. I construct the wasli by joining multiple layers of handmade paper with glue, building the final surface layer by layer before beginning the painting. I then work the surface to create a firm ground for successive layers of pigment. I retain the irregular edges of the handmade support, allowing its physical construction to remain visible.

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This accumulated material structure is integral to my thinking: just as the surface is formed through layers, experience, memory, and identity are shaped through successive moments and traces. The making of the surface and the making of the image therefore become part of the same inquiry.

My work draws from the material knowledge and visual sensibility of Indian miniature painting, but I do not seek to recreate historical forms. Instead, I use this inherited language to construct contemporary spaces where the boundaries between the natural world, the body, and inner experience become fluid.

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Rivers can suggest the passage of time; roots can evoke unseen connections; mountains and geological forms can carry a sense of endurance, vulnerability, and change. These associations remain open rather than fixed, allowing the paintings to hold different experiences and memories.

Across my work, I am interested in how life leaves traces—within the body, within landscapes, and within the materials through which we remember. My recent work has begun to extend this inquiry toward motherhood, considering the body itself as another landscape shaped by care, inheritance, creation, and transformation.

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This emerging direction grows from the same questions that continue to guide my practice: how experience accumulates, how forms of life are interconnected, and how painting can make those invisible layers perceptible.