ARTIST STATEMENT

My current work explores the complex terrain of parenting in the modern age. While the challenges of raising children are arguably timeless and universal, contemporary life has intensified parental expectations and urgency while simultaneously choking the natural patterns of work, rest, and play in solitude as well as in community. However, even these struggles are inarguably transcended by the transformative grace of faith, hope, and love that daily play out in the theater of this relationship.

I explore this interplay of intense delight and difficulty through allegorical narratives that blend personal iconography with conventional symbols. These are miniature, figurative paintings and drawings that depict intimate dramas unfolding against the backdrop of obscure environments. Following the tradition of eastern manuscript art, the perspective is not only flattened but sometimes deliberately distorted and the lines between interior and exterior worlds intentionally blurred. Together, they map the various points of tension and synthesis between order, chaos, intimacy, isolation, absurdity, humor, banality and sublimity that occur in the domestic sphere.

Drawing heavily upon the minutiae of life as a homeschooling mother of two, my visual vocabulary is also accentuated by the cross-cultural dimensions of my life as a Christian immigrant from India. These narratives not only capture the personal and idiosyncratic but also the commonalities that bind the collective phenomena of parenting. They invite the viewer to pause and contemplate this complex, quotidian landscape and find within its rhythms and routines moments of truth, beauty, and mystery.