the artist

I am an Indian-born, Toronto-based contemporary artist working across digital works, installation, and material-based systems. My practice is driven by an ongoing investigation into psychological pressure, not as emotion, but as structure.

The work begins with the question of how internal states can be built, sustained, and contained. Repetition, fragmentation, compression, and restraint operate as formal tools. Across mediums, these elements function consistently, allowing each work to participate in a larger visual system rather than stand as an isolated expression.

Traditional Indian practices enter my work not as origin, but as methodology. Systems such as Rangoli introduced a way of thinking about accumulation, impermanence, and disciplined repetition. These logics are absorbed and reconfigured through contemporary processes, including digital drawing, animation, and installation, to operate within new spatial and cultural contexts.

Public presentations at Nuit Blanche Toronto and DesignTO tested this approach at architectural scale. In these environments, structure became experiential. Materials such as sand, mirrors, and light were used to construct spaces where pressure is not illustrated but encountered.

Each material holds a specific role. Sand records accumulation and instability. Mirrors introduce confrontation and self-recognition. Light exposes without resolving. Together, they create environments that sustain tension rather than release it.

Personal experience informs the work, but meaning is carried through system and form. The practice resists narrative resolution in favor of coherence, repetition, and long-term development. What emerges is a body of work concerned with how internal pressure shapes perception, identity, and visibility over time.

Building psychological pressure as form, system, and structure