My artwork questions the ownership of one’s body and focuses on issues of identity, gender, and sexuality. My body of work is conceptually driven – often engaging abstract ideas of repetition and multiplicity, where my body and sexuality is utilized as a tool to communicate to the world, because I want to make every attempt to talk about the truth as best as I can. I am interested in furthering our collective discourse and creating new forms of communication. Often I try to challenge our traditional conceptions and the choices we routinely make. Are our choices really free? How does our community, our family and culture influence are choices? Do we choose to be prostitutes? Do we choose to be gay? Do we choose to be abused? Who is the victim and who is the perpetrator?

My personal experience with a proposed arranged marriage – which I rejected – led me to research forms of indentured servitude and the ways in which people can be presented and packaged to be sold as a commodity. As a result, I have become increasingly involved in creating a body of work that centers on people’s experiences and their immediate surroundings during their crises. As opposed to attempting to imitate their lives, I deliver their stories in an abstract manner. Although, these stories are told from an abstract perspective, I do not try to hide their tragedies in any ways. Some images are graphic, violent, sad, and shocking. Some of my recent representative work includes a series of drawings populated by repeated naked figures rendered with great detail yet surrounded by a world that feels empty and lonely. Learning about these experience informed my work greatly. When people look at my work, I want my work to be shown not as narrative but rather as a visual diary.