Artist Statement

I grew up in Ahmedabad, India, and immigrated to Ohio at the age of eight. That early shift—moving across cultures, languages, and systems of meaning—continues to shape how I understand materials and the roles objects play in everyday life. My work often begins with familiar, functional forms: sporting equipment, utensils, vessels, diagrams, and instructional graphics. Through processes of distortion, translation, and recombination, these objects become sites where cultural memory and personal experience intersect.

Working across sculpture, craft, and design, I move fluidly between wood, glass, printmaking, and digital fabrication. I’m drawn to the points of friction and overlap—where traditional hand-based processes meet contemporary tools, and where material decisions both honor and complicate inherited identities. Many of my works explore what is gained, altered, or unsettled when objects and languages move from one context to another.

Care is a central thread in my practice. Some projects reflect this directly, such as assistive devices I’ve designed and built to support my mother’s mobility at home. Other works operate more quietly—through repetitive labor, material sensitivity, or the steady persistence of hand-formed objects. Across these approaches is a belief that making is not only a technical act, but a relational one grounded in responsibility and connection.

I understand sculpture as a space where the handmade and the digital coexist, where objects carry histories while generating new possibilities for interpretation, belonging, and shared meaning.