Made in winter 2023 for VIS 135 — Design Research Methods — during my senior year. The project was a photographic series examining the over-sexualization of the sari by the Western gaze and the act of reclaiming it. All photographs are my own. The images are embedded throughout — the text on them is part of the work. View Project The sari is not a costume. It is not exotic. It is not an invitation. It is, at its most literal, a length of unstitched fabric — somewhere between

Written in May 2022 for LTCS 130 — Transnational Feminisms — during my junior year. I signed up for the course to fulfill a graduation requirement. I made a poetry book for the final project instead of writing a paper, drawing from Grace Cho's memoir Tastes Like War and from my own life as a first-generation Indian-American. The "book" has three poems — one about familial pressure and the cost of questioning your own history, one about emotional residue and hidden bruises, an

Written in October 2020 for VIS 41 in college — a sophomore, asked to compile a set of visual influences and write about them. I opened by admitting I don't really connect with art. I have since built a life around it. The closing line surprised me when I wrote it and still does.