Essay · On Art
Every shred of art deserves to exist
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My appreciation of art is a barometer for unconditional love and acceptance in my own life. When I witness a piece — any piece — I am simply grateful it exists. The classically critiqued dot on a canvas. The cacophonous unknowable sound. The mythology in marble. All of it deserves to emerge into this 3D plane for the joy of existing.
You will rarely find me argue against a piece of art.
And so art has become my teacher. If I can receive a stranger's creative act with that quality of openness — what else might I receive that way? I try to apply it to all of existence. People different from me or the same. This table. That tree. We all deserve to be loved for the simple reason that we exist. The rest is details.
You will rarely find me argue against a piece of art.
And so art has become my teacher. If I can receive a stranger's creative act with that quality of openness — what else might I receive that way? I try to apply it to all of existence. People different from me or the same. This table. That tree. We all deserve to be loved for the simple reason that we exist. The rest is details.
Essay · On Slow Fashion
We're the only species that creates landfills
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Why are we harvesting new materials from the earth, wearing them for two seconds, and throwing them in the ocean? We are the only species that creates waste it cannot absorb back into itself. Even beavers, who reshape their entire landscape, produce nothing the system cannot reclaim. Just think about that for a second.
Think of it as a body tucking its waste into a small cavity and never looking at it — just dumping more in. Eventually the system goes septic.
Whether you look at this through a corporeal feminist lens, the shadow side of the 12th house, or classical Jungian theory — take your pick. But it's time to look at our collective shadow and build something better. Let's stop acting like sick people. It's time.
Think of it as a body tucking its waste into a small cavity and never looking at it — just dumping more in. Eventually the system goes septic.
Whether you look at this through a corporeal feminist lens, the shadow side of the 12th house, or classical Jungian theory — take your pick. But it's time to look at our collective shadow and build something better. Let's stop acting like sick people. It's time.
Exhibition Note · High Museum · Atlanta
Adolph Gottlieb's Duet
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The celestial orbs suspended outside of time — past and future at once. Are they dueling? They seem harmonious but different, grounded by forms that look like earthy decay below.
When I stand in front of a piece that makes no intellectual sense and stops me cold anyway, I'm asking the artist in my head: you can just... do that? Glory to your liberation.
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When I stand in front of a piece that makes no intellectual sense and stops me cold anyway, I'm asking the artist in my head: you can just... do that? Glory to your liberation.
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Exhibition Note · Philadelphia Museum of Art
Standing in front of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase
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Some works stop you so completely that all you can do is feel it.
Essay forthcoming
Essay forthcoming
Essay · On Sustainability Systems
What a global waste plan taught me about fashion's real problem
The fashion industry's sustainability conversation is often vague. Mine isn't — I built real waste infrastructure for a global operation. Here's what that revealed about slow fashion.
Essay forthcoming
Point of View · Desi Women & Creative Identity
On The Creator Caste
In many South Asian communities, the script for women is written before they arrive. What happens when Desi women of the diaspora choose to add themselves to the list.
Essay forthcoming