For over twelve years, I have worked across various mediums, yet I always return to drawing. In a world saturated with digital images, drawing offers me a slower and more intimate way of thinking. It is where I observe, reflect, and make sense of my experiences. Often, in my studio, one action leads to another, allowing stories and meanings to emerge naturally through the process of making. Because of the way I was raised, I sometimes feel constrained, rigid, and find it difficult to communicate through words. I feel freer when I am making. There is also a sense of ephemerality in my practice. I often draw directly on my studio walls; many of these drawings no longer exist and were created only for that moment, like a release.

I like my work to be free and unrestricted; as such, I have attempted to break away from certain conventions of printmaking. In the work Self Portrait, drawings are repeated through the action of screen printing across a surface. I then incorporate pieces of tape and place them on top of the print, which simultaneously cover, impose, hide, reveal, and amplify the bodies and their presence. An additional compositional layer, created with subtle coloured dots, rests atop the image. In its entirety, the work creates a tension between the organically hand-drawn and the mechanically reproduced, both in the making and the experience of the image.

The subjects and themes that emerge in my practice generally stem from personal experiences. These may include encounters with people, places, and situations I come across through travel and everyday life. Ideas of identity, collectivity, transformation, our connection to one another and oneness particularly interest me. Works such as Light Weaver, Care, and Becoming Tree explore these ideas and represent the collective voice of a crowd—a crowd seeking to rise, transcend, and transform into a state where there is no differentiation based on gender, sexuality, race, caste, creed, disability, or class; a place where we are essentially one and the same from within. The intention of my work is to raise awareness and awaken consciousness in others about their own existence. It offers an alternative perspective on identity, one that is not defined by the limitations and constructs of the mind.

Material and process are integral to how I communicate ideas. I choose mediums in response to the subjects I am exploring. In the portrait series Acid Attack Survivors, I have used acid as an agent of creation rather than a tool of destruction, revealing the beauty within each of the survivors whom I personally interviewed in the UK and India.

Repetition remains central to my practice, through recurring marks, forms and actions. I explore the rhythms that govern our lives. These patterns – both conscious and unconscious; shape our daily existence, revealing repetition not as sameness, but as a living force of growth, transformation and continuity.