Story Telling
Leaving it in the hands of original culture makers even with fewer initial profits, will give people a reason to visit places and have an authentic experience. Which in turn will sustain tourism.
The Evolving Gardener
sculpture pieces inspired by meat eating plants. Delicate and colorful, these plants are unassuming and yet deadly for their prey! These works are a tribute to the process of evolution. The graphic lines of tattoo art are incorporated into "Elements" such as water and fire to celebrate the imprint of life on this planet much like scraping off the outer layer of skin on one's body to mark it with a statement about the self!
Gravity of the Grassroot
The focus of economic improvement kept local, will create employment, and education for the indigenous people in the Himalayas. Tourism for a major source of revenue , the attraction to these parts may be preserved by allowing the local people to preserve and flourish within their culture. So they won't feel impelled to move away from their roots in pursuit of a better living. Strategic assistance provided now will prevent indigenous culture from the mountains to get wiped out by the tide of commercial influx.
Black Lives Matters
Philadelphia
Cultural Inheritance Not Physical Phenotype Please!
Celebrate the cultural diversity of the country rather than stoke divisiveness spreading cultural flack.
Higgledy Piggledy, sculpture at National Liberty Museum, Philadelphia
Philly Freedom Exhibit at National Liberty Museum
The giant mosaiced egg reflects much like a disco ball the light that hits its surface. Light – being information that is yet to consolidate into a new consciousness, in the current environment.
Waste Not Want Not 123
Waste Not Want Not 123
The measure of wellbeing in society may take into consideration the availability of provisions for sustenance, food, shelter, health, etc. The freedom to achieve well-being is a matter of what people can do and be, and thus the kind of life they are effectively able to lead. The capability approach pioneered by Amartya Sen rests on (1) the assessment of individual well-being; (2) the evaluation and assessment of social arrangements; and (3) the design of policies and proposals about social change in society. Extensive public discussion sharing values and resolve in a transparent democratic manner addressing inheritance of past transgressions at global and local levels may be the start of progress towards the attainment of wellbeing at a societal level. Implementation of policies at a local level may be piloted and measured for effectiveness and checked for avoidance of arbitrariness.
We'll Grow on You -II, relief painting on henna, 18x18x6 inches
We’ll Grow On You
Grasp, relief painting, 24x20 inches, putty, fork, henna on canvasSpeak, relief painting, 30x30 inches, putty, fork, henna on canvasResidual Love, sculpture, putty, henna, ink, bamboo skewers, 14x12x12 inchesnew material composite,…
Love in the time of Polarization
Performance Art Digital Photography
Love in the Time of Polarization -II
...the story is still about the symbolic motherland separated ideologically but with common challenges.
Trenton Art Fair Shooting and my Otherness
...I was their primary contact, and my face was brown. The deep divide among the people of NJ and other parts of the country, makes artists suffer and defeats the purpose of art itself. My hope is that if there is a single purpose to this financially decrepit pursuit, that is art, it will be that of inclusion.