During the last 11 years my art practice has been shaped by many factors. My studies at art school in Delhi directed my attention towards "maps" and "mappings". When we look at a map from a distance it gives the effect of colorful abstract territories. But upon close observation we come to know that each and every abstract form and line has a place to lead us and a purpose to exist in. In short maps teach us many things in terms of form, structure and content more than they describe a territory or geography.

During this period I concentrated mainly on painting and sculpture inspired by political and geographical maps. The idea of abstraction in contrast to specific details and structures mergedin many of these works. This was a time that I treated the idea of "map" or "mapping" more as a subject to paint or sculpt without questioning the formal aspect of the structure (painting, sculpting etc) itself.

In a later stage I tried to separate "mapping" as a concept from the territory of painted surface. The process demanded a great deal of mental exercise to understand the social reality with a completely different set of cartographic calculations. The perspective of territorial mapping expanded to the mapping of culture, mapping of the environment, mapping of the hierarchies and systems of the communities we all are part of. This is where my present engagement of "social mapping" begins.

The first and foremost idea of mapping is locating ones self in relation to the territory one is a part of. In the age of globalization and its market strategies a new territory was created which replaced political boundaries. From my critical analysis of globalization and its world markets; national and political territories have merged into a new world created by economic territories which no longer looks like the world we were once familiar with. Resistance or reflection on this issue is one of the main concerns of my recent works.