I paint people. Not the version of people the world decides is acceptable, but the whole person, the one with history in their face and weight in their posture and something they are not going to apologize for. That is what I am after every time I start a painting.

I grew up in the Caribbean diaspora, Indo-Guyanese by heritage, which means I come from a place where multiple histories live in the same body without resolving into one simple story. South Asian, African, Indigenous, colonial, all of it present at once. I have stopped trying to explain that away and started painting from inside it instead.

My process is layered. I build surfaces the way memory builds itself, adding paint and texture and symbol and sometimes hidden text until there is more there than you can take in at first. I want the work to reward people who stay with it. There is always something beneath the visible face, and I mean that both literally and otherwise.

I have been making work under the name #Human for years now. The question underneath all of it is the same one: who gets to be seen as fully human without having to earn it first? I am not interested in making that question comfortable. I am interested in making it visible, and making it large enough that you cannot walk past it without noticing.

My first real teacher was Vadim Bora. He showed me that a painting is not decoration, it is a statement about what you believe the world is. I have been trying to live up to that ever since.

Right now my work is on view at YMI Cultural Center in Asheville as part of my residency as the 2026 Kuumba Artist in Residence. The exhibition is called REFRAME: The Deconstruction of Constructs. I would love for you to come see it.