My primary exploration concerns positioning my identity, my body, in relation to its conditioned surrounding. My work is a form of dreamscapes, constituting abstract measures layered with specific meanings. In an imaginative interplay of exterior and interior/negative and positive space, I incorporate language, figures, masks, and realistic identifiable objects in my paintings to induce liminality. Dreaming and juxtaposing dream, is a social necessity. Abstraction acts as a tool to maintain fragments of information to be brought together. Dynamics of control and play are things that compel me to do my work. I present paint for its sensuality and tactility in a combination of forms, gestures, dreamlike drawings, to translate fragmented histories that assemble beyond realism. By channeling these interests, I navigate and reorganize politics in response to my own experiences as a Nepali woman living in the US through acts of painting, performance and installation, and fostering the feeling of unapologetic arrival.