Scroll Breath, 2025
Video loop, 1 min 30 sec · layered breath soundtrack
Nine unretouched bellies, filmed at sunrise on India’s Andaman Islands, pulse through Kapalbhati inside the 3 × 3 grid every feed has taught us to trust. Autoplay and endless repeat stay on, but glamour is traded for oxygen. A layered whoosh of real breath drifts in tempo, coaxing viewers to map each sound to a navel—and, involuntarily, to their own diaphragm.
Can an online artwork—delivered by the same browser that sells us everything—restore bodily presence? Scroll Breath turns the screen into a communal lung and asks whether a feed can hold attention when its sole content is respiration. The piece borrows the internet’s grammar, then refuses its economy: in a bandwidth world, breath is the last unpaywalled commons.
Can an online artwork—delivered by the same browser that sells us everything—restore bodily presence? Scroll Breath turns the screen into a communal lung and asks whether a feed can hold attention when its sole content is respiration. The piece borrows the internet’s grammar, then refuses its economy: in a bandwidth world, breath is the last unpaywalled commons.
About Me:
I’m an artist-researcher whose practice moves fluidly between performance, video, installation, and community collaboration. Born in New Delhi and trained in India and the U.K., I’m drawn to the thresholds—where rural and urban rhythms meet, where public and private worlds collide, and where everyday materials can be re-imagined into new realms of possibility. Depending on the idea, I’ll sketch, sculpt, screen-print, or step into character—whatever it takes to bring a concept to life.
Since 2011 I’ve co-founded the Art For Art Foundation, running a residency and mentorship program for emerging artists across India. Watching their bold experiments has taught me as much as I’ve taught them—and kept me hungry to evolve with the times. Today that means writing my own simple AI scripts, tinkering with Raspberry Pi prototypes, and asking how sustainable tech can amplify, rather than overpower, our human stories. These experiments led me to coin Anthrosolix— a portmanteau of anthro (human) and solix (from “solstice,” a turning point)—to describe practices that pivot at the intersection of humanity, environment, and innovation.
That passion for mentoring and pedagogy then gave rise to ChampaTree Art Gallery and The Create Studio. ChampaTree is a dedicated gallery platform for India’s most exciting emerging artists; The Create Studio offers hands-on art and design workshops, portfolio coaching, and bespoke group programs—all born from my belief in arts education as a catalyst for creative growth.
Over the past two decades I’ve curated residencies, exhibitions, and even helped draft cultural and environmental manifestos for a national political party—while serving as their spokesperson in New Delhi. My goal is always to spark conversation around ecology, social justice, gender, and our shared responsibility for the spaces we inhabit. I believe art thrives at the crossroads of big-picture
dreaming and get-your-hands-dirty making. When I’m not in the studio or gallery, you’ll find me teaching workshops on curriculum design, writing in my favorite neighborhood café, prototyping a low-energy interactive project—or simply on the road, gathering new stories. I’m at home wherever ideas and people collide.
I’m an artist-researcher whose practice moves fluidly between performance, video, installation, and community collaboration. Born in New Delhi and trained in India and the U.K., I’m drawn to the thresholds—where rural and urban rhythms meet, where public and private worlds collide, and where everyday materials can be re-imagined into new realms of possibility. Depending on the idea, I’ll sketch, sculpt, screen-print, or step into character—whatever it takes to bring a concept to life.
Since 2011 I’ve co-founded the Art For Art Foundation, running a residency and mentorship program for emerging artists across India. Watching their bold experiments has taught me as much as I’ve taught them—and kept me hungry to evolve with the times. Today that means writing my own simple AI scripts, tinkering with Raspberry Pi prototypes, and asking how sustainable tech can amplify, rather than overpower, our human stories. These experiments led me to coin Anthrosolix— a portmanteau of anthro (human) and solix (from “solstice,” a turning point)—to describe practices that pivot at the intersection of humanity, environment, and innovation.
That passion for mentoring and pedagogy then gave rise to ChampaTree Art Gallery and The Create Studio. ChampaTree is a dedicated gallery platform for India’s most exciting emerging artists; The Create Studio offers hands-on art and design workshops, portfolio coaching, and bespoke group programs—all born from my belief in arts education as a catalyst for creative growth.
Over the past two decades I’ve curated residencies, exhibitions, and even helped draft cultural and environmental manifestos for a national political party—while serving as their spokesperson in New Delhi. My goal is always to spark conversation around ecology, social justice, gender, and our shared responsibility for the spaces we inhabit. I believe art thrives at the crossroads of big-picture
dreaming and get-your-hands-dirty making. When I’m not in the studio or gallery, you’ll find me teaching workshops on curriculum design, writing in my favorite neighborhood café, prototyping a low-energy interactive project—or simply on the road, gathering new stories. I’m at home wherever ideas and people collide.
