ARTIST STATEMENT
Home, for me, is not fixed but fragile, carried through gestures, sounds, and objects that hold emotional resonance. My practice explores shifting notions of belonging, migration, and memory, reflecting on how movement across places and cultures reshapes identity and leaves us suspended between spaces layered with traces of both past and present.
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Materiality lies at the core of my process. The smell of dried flowers, the texture of handmade paper, and the echo of footsteps become quiet anchors of belonging. I work with materials that embody memory; pigments ground from Goan soil, oils absorbed into paper, projections layered with field recordings to translate sensory experiences into visual form through painting, video, sound, and installation.
Line, for me, becomes a gesture of connection, tracing the rhythm of human presence and capturing fleeting moments that linger beyond their time. The contrast between the quiet of one place and the pulse of another often finds expression in my moving image works, where landscapes fade and overlap, hovering between presence and absence.
My practice does not seek to define home as a singular location but to inhabit its fluid, shifting boundaries. It reflects on belonging as both tender and uncertain, and on migration as a process of loss and renewal. Through material, sound, and image, I explore how identity transforms in movement, held together by fragile intersections of memory and matter.
I find home not as permanence but as a state of becoming: an in-between space where memory, material, movement, and line converge.

