From early childhood in India I was attracted to rhythm and sound. After graduation in classical music and comparative literature, I taught, researched, published, performed, composed, recorded, and served for eleven years as a docent at the Baltimore Museum of Art. There, as I encountered art in its full glory, pieces that arrested me were those that whispered, echoed, sang, talked or screamed at me. Colors became sound. Not surprisingly, my music and poetry strive to visualize colors and my paintings, to capture rhythms/sounds.