A Journey Through Color, Chaos, and Curiosity

I painted this is 2024. Contemplating the advancing world of AI and Robotics. New Age Mom (2024) by Roshni Ali Today, it's a reality. We are the last humans. Engineered birth asks us to imagine human life before it arrives in the world. Advances in reproductive technology, embryo screening, gene editing research, and artificial womb concepts raise deep questions that reach far beyond medicine. Some hopes are compassionate. Parents may want to avoid severe inherited disease. D

As an artist deeply connected to Goa’s wellness community, this artwork is my interpretation of a women’s circle — a space for connection, ritual, grounding and remembering. At its centre, a shamanic drum carries the rhythm of the earth. Cacao becomes a symbol of opening the heart, while the roots reaching deep beneath the women speak of ancestry and our connection to nature. A symbolic honoring of the feminine, the earth, and the ancient rituals that bring us back to ourse

'Haunted by the Same Monsters' is a contemporary take on the dark forces that shape our lives today. Media outrage, ideological possession, self-sacrifice, manipulation, desire, and collective delusion take on physical form as strange and unsettling beings. I began painting these creatures as a way of making sense of the world around me. They emerged during a time when the noise felt overwhelming—when outrage, fear, division, and confusion seemed to be everywhere.

Samudra Manthan painting by Roshni Ali, contemporary psychedelic interpretation of the Hindu myth showing devas and asuras churning the cosmic ocean with Vasuki.