ARTIST STATEMENT

Aishwariya Chandrasekar is a visual and traditional artist, whose pen & ink drawings and embroidery pieces explore her reflections and musings on navigating the world as an individual, finding meaning in the mundane, and generating moments of joy and purpose in the act of creating.

For Aishwariya, the act of creating is a process of reckoning - an introspective and expressive ritual. Her abstract embroidery and pen & ink drawings are a representation of her ongoing journey of reckoning with herself, the world around her, and the vastness of human experience, ranging from the mundane to the expansive. She draws inspiration from transitory phenomena and their shifting components, such as waves of water, smoke, murmurations, cultural formations, and social change. Using small, repetitive components, she explores the generativity and tension between them when amassed, layered, and overlapped. Having been trained in the traditional Indian art form of Kolam, she also draws inspiration from her cultural heritage and the generations of women who came before her.

In her work, Aishwariya pays homage to the small, ephemeral moments that leave their mark, and their significance in her journey – whether it is watching leaves move, creating a Kolam, or observing rays of sunlight. It is the process of reckoning with the pain, joy, and beauty of experiencing life as an individual within an infinitely complex cosmos.