Pen and paint

The project of my work is paying attention to familiar, ordinary spaces, items, people, and moments through a South Asian diasporic lens. I transpose color, texture, and figurative positions to reveal a panorama of South Asian and American perspectives. Kantha is a layered work - with detailed mark-making depicting stitches, motifs, and folds of a traditional kantha fabric juxtaposed with the listless poses of a woman, clothed in dissimilar attire. The figures are suffused with vivid colors, almost as if they have saturated the colors from the kantha fabric around them. Kantha explores the contrast of the familiar and sometimes conflicting spaces that a second generation American inhabits.