Our identities are defined and influenced by our history, society and the culture of our immediate surroundings. We stand at a crossroad where nationalities and localities intersect. In this global cultural environment where identities and boundaries converge, one seeks to identify oneself. As an Indian woman living in a post-colonial, post-modern global environment, I explore a continuum of cross-cultural negotiation. My identity is an assimilation of varying influences from past and present, from both East and West.
My work represents this hybrid identity formed through personal, cultural and spiritual experience. From my multi-cultural experiences, I integrate elements and incorporate symbols and motifs of different cultures in my visual imagery.
My new body of work investigates the synthesis between these binary oppositions such as, east - west, local - global, ancient - modern, oriental - occidental and how they coexist