PADAARTH is an explicit study of substance, addiction, self-medication and altered consciousness.

Through references to cannabis, opium, poppies, chemical transformation and distorted reality, the designs examine how the same substance can become medicine, pleasure, escape, dependency or destruction. The collection does not romanticize addiction; it captures the complicated relationship between remedy and ruin—and the evidence every escape leaves behind.

I TOUCHED HEAVEN WITH POISON IN MY BLOOD.