India

In the summer of 2025, I spent three weeks living and working in the foothills of the Himalayas as part of an artist residency through Art for Change International.

Where We Meet

While in India, I was a part of an artist residency through Art for Change. The theme for this year’s residency was “boundary crossing: interfaith.” In response to this theme, I collaborated with artist Sabita Lakshmanan, who was my roommate during this experience. In sharing space, we quickly discovered that we may be divided by religion, age, geography, etc., but more importantly, we shared a mutual practice of yoga and art. Together, we’ve created Where We Meet as a statement of unity. Using flashe paint and brushes made from found objects, such as brooms or bamboo, we have abstracted our individual interpretations of space. At another level, we used our yoga practice. Together, we planned a yoga sequence and created kinetic body drawings as we flowed together through our practice. Again, a statement of unity. In total, the work is a response to the question of what we do with difference and, in the dialogue of interfaith, how we hold space. First for ourselves, and then for those around us.