My work mines personal narratives and explores immigrant issues with a focus on gender, popular culture, and the seductive promises made by rituals. I use many current digital techniques, and find that objects, images, sounds, and video clips in can be appropriated, altered, and remixed to create work, that is suited to the frenetic, transnational times in which we live.

In the series ‘Malabar Bride’, I digitally combined drawings of my own traditional Hindu wedding photos with found images of sumptuous imperial architecture, ethnic-chic interior design, and animal coloring books. I constructed these collages to create disorienting spaces of captivity and domesticity for the figures of the bride. Under the glossy and ironic aesthetic of consumer-age pastiche lies a darker world of entrapment.

In the "Love in the Time of Silsila" collages, I revisited the pantheon of deities I grew up with—of the moviestar variety. As a child, I learned everything I ever needed to know about love—modesty, choreography and the virtuosity in crossing time, space and costume continuums— from Bollywood cinema. The 1981 film Hindi 'Silsila' with megastars embodying all that is slick (Amitabh Bachchan) and thatwhich sizzles sex appeal (Rekha), coinciding with the popularization of the VCR, imprinted certain scenes in my mind. By manipulating film stills, I revisited a particular song that takes the duo to a tulip field in Holland where they sing, dance and gaze love collaged them in dream-like landscapes amplified by glittery, fragile and illusory chandeliers.