I’ve been very lucky growing up. Although not affluent, my parents emphasised personal growth through travel, and made sure that my sister and I were always given the opportunity to explore different cultures, experiences, customs and traditions.

I’ve lived in several different cities growing up. I decided to use the latitude and longitude co-ordinates of cities I’ve lived in to create visualisation. Born in Hyderabad, went to high school in Dehradun, mom lives in Uganda so went there every summer, undergrad in Malaysia and now living in NYC! And travel and living in these different places has had the biggest impact on who I am. For this project, I decided to get the latitudes and longitudes of the various cities, and visualise them and create art for something I could eventually hang on my wall. I use the lat and lot and then plotted them on grasshopper using points.

Hyderabad, India 17.3700° N, 78.4800° E

Dehardun, India 30.3180° N, 78.0290° E

Kampala, Uganda 0.3136° N, 32.5811° E

Semenyih, Malaysia 2.9500° N, 101.8500° E

New York City, USA 40.7127° N, 74.0059° W

I wanted the visualisation of these points to reflect a circular form to sort of represent the cycle of growth (totally for realz).

This is the resulting visualisation kinda looks like the airbnb logo! I wanted to etch this form onto a flat surface that I could then hang on my wall. I chose acrylic and also etched the co-ordinated. It looks quite cool in real-life 🙂

The result!