This artist statement is an attempt to define myself and my elaborate belief system at age nineteen. If art correlates to beauty, then design does to the marriage of convenience and aesthetics. In my own work I believe in striking a balance between the two while also grappling with the question of what truly matters in the current climate. My work stems from that idealistic and hopeful crevice which believes that art and design can change people and as an extension, humanity. I enjoy the space in design that is constantly evolving and questioning societal norms and environmental impact. My goal is to create for social change through environmental consideration. As a designer, I see the potential to provoke thought through everyday objects.
I’m constantly inspired by experiences of my own and the people around me, I design through dissecting the emotions, paradoxes and needs of the situations. Various people from around the world inspire me, they are artists like Chiharu Shiota, activists like Sunitha Krishnan and Dr. Abraham George, multidisciplinary designers like Julian Melchiorri, legends like Paul Poiret; whose works have a sense of joy or a sense of purpose. I like when the visual elements of a piece are enhanced by the message it carries, I like the duality between aesthetics and significance. I like that a color or a symbol can evoke memories or associations simply through placement or scale. I like the ability that the exterior has on the functioning of the internal. As for me, my internal is a constantly flowing, a mostly self-contained hurricane of existentialism, idealism and dreams of momos and rasam rice.
