Acknowledging the legacy of the Pattern & Decoration movement while expressing my unique vision, my paintings can be described as “exotic”, illusory landscapes. Largely painted intuitively, and drawing on art, objects, murals, tiles, textiles, wallpaper as reference, they are a mix of objects, nature imagery, patterning and ornamentation. Within the paintings I create narrative and tangential connections reflecting intersections and migrations of various cultural visual languages from South Asian to Middle Eastern to Western. Through re-interpreting and re-contextualizing these forms within my own unique style and content, this synthesis is a way of speaking to the “in-between space” of varied social and cultural realities that I inhabit.