My work explores solitude, and I attempt to blur the lines between comfort and discomfort through black and white drawings and paintings. I challenge traditional notions of home and identity, inspired by my experiences of isolation during cancer treatment as a teenager and the subsequent displacement from my home in India. Both my treatment and education abroad led me to seek and create temporary homes, shaping my practice around the complexities of belonging and homesickness.

I work with a limited palette and medium— the foundation of my works are black inks and occasionally paint, charcoal, or graphite on paper. This allows me to create a world that is not rooted in reality, but rather, a dream. My paintings are detailed— this prolonged attention and time offers me the space to grow with these fictional friends before parting ways with them.

The figures in my work embody a state of solitude that is paradoxical—they are often surrounded by others within domestic spaces yet remain enveloped in their own inner worlds. They exist in a liminal space, simultaneously seeking connection and finding comfort in their solitude. In essence, my work attempts to navigate and blur the line between the comfort of being alone and the discomfort of loneliness.