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2011-present

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Crafted Identities • 2021-2024

Research Essay on the technological transformations in textile design
AP CSP Curriculum Design • 2023

Visual curriculum and website design
Digital Fabrication • Spring 2023

Teaching an undergraduate class focused on modern fabrication processes and technologies around socially and culturally relevant themes
xFab Lab • Fall 2022

Teaching an MFA class focused on modern fabrication processes and technologies around socially and culturally relevant themes
Speculative Spaces • 2022

An illustrated talk about Speculative Spaces and infrastructures of the futures with a multi-disciplinary cohort of creators
The Weaver • 2022

A multi-sensory mixed-media installation and performance about embodied weaving
Crafted Machines • 2022

A talk on cultures and communities of machines
Jugaad: about a culture of looms • 2022

Accessibility and frugal innovation around novel DIY looms
Interweaving Interfaces: A Memoir • 2022

A critically fabulated memoir about collective intelligence through theories, philosophies, and applications of textiles
Tex-taal • 2022

Dancing speakers and whispering ghungroos, an e-textile dialogue
Materiality of Time: Wonderings • 2022

Musings about materiality of time and temporal experiences through materials
Brushwork • 2011-present

Art gallery
Weaving Time • 2022

What is it like to experience time and temporalities through weaving?
Touch me or not • 2022

An emotional textile that remembers a touch, an e-textile exploration
Bridging Exchange • 2021

A proposal to redesign Thomas Greene Park in Brooklyn, NY
Core Studio 1: 3D • Fall 2021

Teaching an undergraduate class focused on exploring the fundamentals of 3D media- materials, form, space, and installation
Contemporary Weaving • 2015-present

Workshops teaching handloom, powerloom, and/or computational weaving techniques
Exist • 2021

An animated short film
What the duck! • 2021

Toy design methodology and prototyping
Trackster • 2021

A new species of surveilling cyborgs is breeding amongst us...
Boxie (he/him/his) • 2021

Shipping boxes coming alive
Baby-Oxy (she/her/hers) • 2021

Oximeters coming alive
Once upon a time in NYC • 2021

Animated shorts anthropomorphising New York city's inanimate objects' feelings during Covid-19 lockdown
Dark Data • 2021

a web-zine design on the topics of data privacy, surveillance, misuse of data, and data speculations
સ્વ- (Self-) • 2021-present

Research paper on an ongoing inquiry into representation of the self through data physicalization and the birth of 'Ethnocrafting'
E-Rigveda • 2020

A data-feminism map of the oldest sanskrit scripture
About personal space • 2020

A soft-structure motion library and proposed installation of different non-verbal communicative gestures around the notion of personal space
Textile Industry's patronage toward a polarized Ahmedabad • 2020

An overview of how the textile industry shaped the urban and cultural landscape of Ahmedabad (India).
Mirror Mirror • 2020

A week of vanity, a data-portrait
Nishra's Fortress of Solitude • 2020

An autobiographical experience game
Carnatic clock • 2020

A clock based on Indian Carnatic music
Room Scenes • 2020

Interior design and modelling for area rugs
Heimtextil • 2020

International trade fair display of material research, forecast analysis, and design development for home textiles
Prathaa • 2016-2019

Bringing the essence of several traditional Indian crafts into a commercial dobby-loom-woven collection
Phygital Pixtile • 2019

Illustration and printed-textile design
Humanium • 2019

Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2020's Spring Summer woven fabrics
The Curator: Keeper of the arts • 2018

Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2019-2020's Autumn Winter woven fabrics
Ashima • 2018

Website design, branding, styling, and photography
Retreat: Inspired living • 2018

Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2019's Spring Summer woven fabrics
Riverberation • 2017

Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2018-2019's Autumn Winter woven fabrics
Psychology • 2017

Textile research, forecast analysis, and a narration, for 2018's Spring Summer woven fabrics
Hoot • 2014-2016

Materializing the enigma of Owls into textiles
Light • 2016

Materializing different types of lights into textiles
Handloom Weaving • 2011-present

Handwoven swatch gallery
Architecture Ethos • 2015

Materializing architecture into textiles
Hide and Seek • 2015

A recycled organic cotton, indigo and non-indigo apparel collection, for kids
Pandora's Box • 2015

A mixed-media installation and performance about the tale of Pandora's Box
Colourcall • 2015

Spatial design and visual merchandise for NIFT
Matrimandir • 2015

Materializing architecture into textiles
My Tsunami Story • 2014

Painting and textile skill development workshop for women seeking to support their families affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami
A play of Taana Vaana (warp weft) • 2014

an ethnographic craft research and documentation of brocades of Gujarat, India
Aquabloom • 2013

Object study of water lily through material-texture explorations and print design
Poetry • 2011-present

Random rhymes

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Family Portrait • Oil on Canvas • 12"x12" each

Engagement • Acrylic on Canvas • 24"x24"

Intimacy • Acrylic on Canvas • 24"x24"

Wedding Portrait • Acrylic on Canvas • 24"x36"

Blue Portrait No. 2 • Acrylic on Canvas • 12"x12"

Blue Portrait No. 3 • Acrylic on Canvas • 12"x12"

Blue Portrait No. 4 • Acrylic on Canvas • 12"x12"

Blue Portrait No. 5 • Acrylic on Canvas • 12"x12"

Blue Portrait No. 6 • Acrylic on Canvas • 12"x12"

Blue Portrait No. 1 • Oil on Canvas • 12"x12"

Blue Portrait No. 7 • Acrylic on Canvas • 12"x12"

Patissier • Oil on Canvas • 12"x12"

Unnamed Portrait • Acrylic on Canvas • 12"x12"

Unnamed Portrait • Acrylic on Canvas • 12"x12"

Mulled Wine • Acrylic on Canvas • 12"x12"

Coffee No. 2 • Acrylic and Coffee on Canvas • 12"x12"

Coffee No. 1 • Acrylic and Coffee on Canvas • 12"x12"

Levain Cookie • Acrylic on Canvas • 12"x12"

Grandma Pizza • Acrylic on Canvas • 12"x12"

citibike • Acrylic on Canvas • 12"x12"

not McDonald's • Acrylic on Canvas • 12"x12"

IPA • Acrylic on Canvas • 12"x12"

Tree of Life 2019 • Acrylic on Canvas • 12"x12"

Midnight • Oil on Canvas

La vie en rose • Oil on Canvas

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