As a first-generation Canadian and child of Punjabi immigrants, my practice emerges from my lived experiences as a women of color moving between cultural, spiritual and emotional worlds. Existing within the diaspora has shaped my relationship to identity as something fluid and layered, rather than fixed. Art becomes both a refuge and a language through which I process this in-between state, translating duality, memory, and longing into form.My multidisciplinary practice spans abstract mixed media paintings and ceramics, each offering a distinct yet interconnected way of engaging with the subconscious. Through soothing, calming color palettes, layered acrylics, paper, and oil pastel linework, I use mixed media as a space to hold complex emotions that resist literal representation. I am interested in empathy as a tool for emotional release and spiritual reconnection, both with the self and with something larger and unseen. My ceramics practice asks me to slow to nature’s rhythm, listening to the quiet intelligence of the material through cycles of making, erasure, and transformation. Inspired by eastern spiritual philosophies, the work channels symbolic forms and objects that echo myth, ritual, and memory. Through these gestures, cultural signifiers are reimagined rather than preserved, allowing tradition to remain living, fluid, and continually becoming. Instead of revisiting trauma as an endpoint, my work is rooted in restoration. Across mediums, my practice is a negotiation between past and present, material and spirit, personal history and collective experience—an ongoing search for belonging through making.