About

Vinothini is a multidisciplinary artist, poet, and naturalist whose work explores themes of displacement, identity, refuge, and the evolving concept of home. Growing up during the Sri Lankan civil war, she taught English as a second language and yoga before migrating to the United States in 2006. These experiences deeply inform her artistic practice, which examines personal history, violence, oppression, and resilience.

Her work integrates text—both Tamil and English—alongside color, collage, and fabric, employing a technique where written language gradually disappears within the drawings, symbolizing erasure, memory, and transformation. Deeply connected to nature, she sees landscapes as sites of both belonging and contested histories, often incorporating on-site drawings to capture the layered complexities of place.