“In my practice, the insights cultivated through artistic inquiry and the skills inherited from crafts persons converge to form a hybrid creative language. Techniques learned from traditional artisans are not merely appropriated but reactivated—transformed through experimental gestures such as painting, pasting, drawing, weaving, knotting, dying, stitching and texturing. These processes, especially in my explorations of Kolam, become sites of dialogic exchange, where knowledge circulates and returns to the craftsperson in renewed, generative form.
In my paintings I render landscapes in acrylic on canvas, layering terrain through pigment and gesture. In parallel, I weave landscapes using palmyra leaves, reeds, and copper sheets—materials embedded with vernacular histories and mnemonic textures. The dimensions and thickness of the ola leaf, combined with natural pigments and traditional weaving techniques, abstract the landscape into geometric configurations and beauty into everyday use. These woven forms do not simply depict nature; they translate, refract, and recompose it—offering a tactile grammar of place, memory, and cultural continuity”.