Growing up in Varanasi, India, Ayushi has been surrounded by an ever-changing mosaic of colors found in some of the most paradoxical contexts. Her perception of color, therefore, has never been one of specificity to emotions or events: black or violet wasn’t the color of destruction, for example, for destruction was a colorful celebration. Her paintings combine her subjective, inherent understanding of color symbolism—or perhaps the misunderstanding of it—to produce strong figurative subjects in her artwork that challenge the viewer’s pre-perceived ideas of associating only certain colors to certain moods, feelings, and events. The elements in her artwork are pulled together on the canvas with a disintegrating thread, usually done with oil pastel crayon lines, which is a distinctive feature of her style of work. Along with developing her personal art projects, she finds an inspired drive in organizing immersive art experiences and exhibits in Hanoi, Vietnam, where she currently lives.