This series began as an acknowledgement to everything I am thankful for in my life, starting from the small things like a hot cup of coffee, a good movie, an interesting book , to more important things in life like good friends, great life partners, family, and finally the absolute essentials like the air I breath, the food I eat, the water I drink, the roof over my head and this wonderful planet that I live in.

With this series I want to acknowledge the nourishment my body and mind receives every single day. The act of making detailed paintings of the seemingly mundane, common ingredients of an Indian kitchen and the seasons’ bounty – fruits and vegetables, on paper cut-outs of my own traced hands, is a reminder to myself that so many people have worked so hard to grow the food I have on my plate, in my hands. Nothing can be taken for granted.
I realise we have a lot to be grateful for, and these works of mine are just a speck of the tribute that we ought to place at the feet of what we call mother nature, a grossly insufficient term to describe this unimaginably vast cosmos.