My artistic practice emerged directly from this period of discipline. What began as collage-making as a form of meditative focus gradually evolved into a sustained visual language. Following an intensive period of devotional practice including extended Vedic recitation and ritual worship—fully formed images began presenting themselves with clarity and persistence, marking a decisive return to making work. For over a decade, I have lived between Italy and France, immersing myself in European art, opera, and classical music. These environments, alongside continued travel between India and Europe, inform the tension between austerity and refinement present in my work.

I work without formal artistic training. My method is rooted instead in lived experience, repetition, and restraint. Each piece follows a strict structure—limiting itself to a small number of images and a reduced color palette. This “brutal simplicity” reflects a principle central to my life: that freedom emerges through discipline.

My source material is drawn from open-access archives of major institutions such as The Met and The Getty—historical images recontextualized into new compositions. The work is less concerned with narrative than with perception, asking the viewer to confront their own assumptions and patterns of seeing.