About

I'm a queer South Asian artist building The Blue Desi as a space for work that doesn’t fit into easy categories. My practice explores identity, memory, and culture—often through themes that resist neat narratives or fixed definitions.

This platform is a way for me to connect with others who see the world from the margins, who make art that feels honest, layered, and a little unruly. I’m interested in how queerness and Desi identity intersect—not just as labels, but as lived experiences that shape how we create and how we are seen.

The Blue Desi is both archive and experiment. Thanks for being here.

The Blue Desi Archive

These works are part of my BLUE DESI series, which reimagines traditional South Asian iconography through a bold, contemporary lens. By using blue skin tones- a nod to both divinity and colorism- I explore the tension between cultural reverence and the lived realities of womanhood.

The BLUE DESI series is both homage and critique—a celebration of heritage and a conversation about the restraints culture can impose on identity, especially at the intersections of gender, diaspora, and resistance.

Bird Series

I love birds. This series began with the ones I’ve encountered in and around Columbia, Maryland—those everyday glimpses that feel like quiet magic: a flash of wings by the water, a still silhouette on a wire, the sudden appearance of color in the underbrush.

Each painting captures a singular moment - a watchful gaze, a tense stillness, a burst of presence - rendered in bold brushstrokes and stylized, expressive palettes.