Visual Artist, Publication Designer, Educator

Working with sequential narratives through drawing, video-animation, image-making, book-making and graphic design, Ishita explores the structural patterns of the natural world and the ways humans observe, interpret, and build in relation to them. Influenced by her interdisciplinary  training in visual art, design and sociology, she investigates the meshwork between the natural and the constructed, revealing their constant interplay and interdependence.

Her work draws inspiration from minute, often overlooked details — the changing formations of land, organic growth on artificial structures, the architecture of animal nests, the trails traced by ducks on still water, footprints of pigeons on a wet floor, or the fragile skeleton of a small animal. Parallelly, she explores the human adaptations of these natural geometries — the wiring of electrical networks, the scaffolds that hold up trees, and the acceptance of urban structure by the local flora and fauna.

For Ishita, each of these structures — organic or artificial — embody a rhythm of balance and interdependence, forming the conceptual ground from where her practice emerges.

With a deep concern for visual literacy in early education, she has been designing and illustrating children’s books for Eklavya, a leading educational NGO, for nearly a decade. She currently teaches Visual Communication Design at the School of Planning and Architecture, Bhopal.