In our third year of the 5-year course, a department was started with Textiles and Ceramics. After working with both for a year, it became a hard choice but I opted for Textiles. India being one of the greatest mass producers of handmade textiles, in the mid-80s there was hardly any studios for Textile Art. And we didn’t have much access to what was going around in the Fiber Art world either. There was one artist Mrinalini Mukherjee, who used to make large knotted sculptures. Having a background in drawing and painting and then growing a love for weaving, I was determined to develop textile as an art form, as another medium of Art. With my experiments in Tapestry, I was brave enough to hold a solo show of my ‘Paintings Thru Weaving’, the first of it’s kind in a city gallery, after my BFA. After moving to the USA I finished my MFA, during which, I got more exposure to weaving and a whole new world of Surface Design, which opened up new avenues for me.