bio	I was inspired at an early age to be creative. Born in New Jersey into a musical Indian family, I began playing instruments around the house, learning by ear and watching my parents perform at concerts. My urge to compose music early in life paralleled my desire to create visual environments. Producing drawings and paintings was a way to manifest and inhabit my visions to which music had played as an ongoing soundtrack. Both my music and art have been strongly influenced by my bicultural upbringing, the surrounding rural landscapes of my childhood and my nostalgic nature. In addition to an undergraduate degree in Architecture, I recently obtained a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. My current work explores the realm of love, memory, and nostalgia through a process of covering and retrieving representational/figurative scenes with layers of repetitive abstraction.
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