My painting practices unfold like a baroque tableau: Saturated hues cascading across the surface, shadows deepening into mystery, and light breaking from the theatrical insistence. In Indian early 19th century painted photographs, I encountered a chromatic language that is both devotional and worldly – pigments that shimmer like jewels, reds that pulse with ritual fervor, blues that echo the infinite. These colors do not merely adorn; they proclaim identity, faith, and belonging with a grandeur that recalls the gilded altar pieces of another hemisphere.

I draw upon a Latin American aesthetic forged in the crucible of Colonial encounters and cultural resilience. Here, color is not passive, but insurgent, a force that resists erasure and insists upon visibility. The Baroque sensibility - with its love of excess, its tension between sacred and profane, its embrace of drama – becomes the bridge between these two worlds. Indian chromatic exuberance meets Latin American intensity, producing paintings that are at once ornate and raw, theatrical yet intimate.

I seek to create images that pulse with contradiction: ornament stripped into its essence, drama distilled into emotional truth. My paintings are not quiet studies but living altarpieces, where color itself becomes a protagonist. Into these works I weave vintage photographs and found objects, relics that carry the patina of time and the weight of forgotten narratives. They serve as anchors of memory, fragments of history that collide with the present, intensifying the sense of hybridism and layering the work with echoes of past lives.

By merging Indian traditions of pigments with Latin American Baroque sensibility, and by embedding the tactile force of found materials, I aim to craft a visual language that speaks of resilience, hybridism, and the human desire for a persistence of memory rendered in luminous tones.