Commissioned Collages
An exhibition curated entirely using collage that tells the story of the history of the relationship between MIT and South Asia.
Book cover art for a reprinting of Dr. Manisha Roy’s Professor Hamilton’s Passage to India
Exploring Bengali Heritage
The imagery of the city falls at a convergence between the architecture of the past and the society of the future and, as we now know, the tourist materials often give an imperially glorified understanding of the city. Click to learn more.
When does an icon become an idol? Click learn more about this investigation into the point of change.
The concept of the nation-state — as an ideology, a practice, a border — comes from the British colonial theory of divide and rule.
In the early days of KCC, as a brand ambassador, I created two collages to go along with my promotional posts to provide historical and cultural context around the significance of chai in Bengali culture.
Imagining Life Beyond the Grave
How are we honored after death? What memories of us are left behind? How much does the world change without us, after we’re gone? A collage based investigation into life after death and how we remember those who have passed.
Creating Healing
A podcast dreamt up to create space for artists and activists to be in community with each other and talk about the creative processes, healing journeys, the relationship between creativity and healing, and so much more. Each guest on creating healing was asked “what does healing look and feel like to you?” With their answers, I’d create a collage for the episode cover.
Lockdown Collages
During the nearly two years of lockdown, I fell back in love with collaging by hand. I spent time going through old magazines, picking out what spoke to me at that time and curating these pieces. A snap shot of where my mind was at, in a moment in time.
Celebrating AAPI Heritage Month through a shared love language: food
Learn more about the comfort dishes that connect me and my AAPI coworkers to our roots and evoke feelings of home, no matter where we are. These dishes (among other AAPI foods) are often prepared at home without a recipe. To cook is to know the spices, the textures, the temperature, and the taste - learning at the hands of loved ones.
Questioning Mainstream Media
Promotional collage for CONFLICTED COEXISTENCE — A Curriculum Designed to Reveal & Represent Competing Identities in Art. Click to learn more.
Cover art for Legacies of Violence | Narratives of Movement — A short film created to radicalize our understanding of bodies, commodified for enjoyment. Click to learn more.
Collage created for a workshop that I lead at the University of Maryland — part of the annual series “Home for the Holidays" focusing specifically on multiraciality during the holidays.
The Storybridge Project
“Name” collages curated for The Storybridge Project, a partnership with RIBS and the Laotian Community Center and a group of youth who identify in some way as Black and/or Asian and female. These collages were used as episode art for a podcast episode where we learned about each others names and the stories/ideas behind them.
Collage as Self Expression
Sometimes I’m called to collage. Not for a specific project or client. Just for me. To work through something. To share something I don’t have the words to say. The misc collages below capture those moment in time.
