We Are All In This To Get Here

Abstract

I was raised practicing Hinduism from birth in the unlikely environment of the Bible Belt of the South East. Eventually my art practice became an important means of metabolizing this experience. I employ the use of materials, practices, palette and imagery representative of my relationship with the Hindu practices. In this body of work, I acknowledge an awareness of the appropriative nature of the American Neo-Hindu movement. This expression of complicated identity manifests itself with a twinge of bittersweet humor in my work. Moving imagery presented as time-based video work combined with shorter repeating gestures in .GIF format act to establish a platform of visual vocabulary as a means of exploring the dualities of identity and projection.