I see myself as a maker. Making is research, is experience, is knowing, is choreography, is a performance.  Clay is the medium through which I think. I understand the material. I am interested in its physicality, its immediacy, in its fragility. I am also interested in the social, political, technical and geological history of ceramics.

As a Kathak dancer I have always used my body to find/construct meaning. To tell stories. Sometimes, stories are the focus of what I make – a source of knowledge of myself, of people, cultures, emotions, and actions. It is a fluid narrative – personal, political, autobiographical, fictional, speculative. There are no boundaries between the real and the imagined. Between truth and make-believe.

Often, the focus is the body. The actor. The acted upon. In my work, I explore the body as object. As a tool for the making as well as the experience of objects. Through my process, and through the objects themselves I question the inherent knowledge of the body versus its social and physical conditioning. The objects tell stories of their making, stories (and secrets) of the body. The body has often been likened to clay. The body as ‘that which has emerged from the earth and that will eventually become one with it’. Can these boundaries be erased? Can my body become sculpture? Can gesture become sculpture?