Studio · Established 2015
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Painting as a form of listening — to instruments that are almost lost, to music the body remembers before the mind.
01 / SERIES
The Kinnera Series
An anthropology of a vanishing instrument
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02 / SERIES
The Impact of Music
Sound as gesture, saturation, and air
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The Persona
About the Artist
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The Conduit
Contact & Acquisition
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Studio Notes
Reflections from the studio
August 2026
The Fading Sound of India: Discovering the Ancient Kinnera Instrument
A few years ago I came across the Kinnera, an ancient Indian string instrument most people have never heard of. What began as small curiosity became a journey into tribal culture, history, music and storytelling — and one of the most fascinating discoveries in my research as an artist.
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On listening before painting
Before the brush, there is a long quiet. A short reflection on waiting, and on what the makers of the Kinnera taught me about listening to material before cutting into it.
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