Who is mehru?
MEHRUNIVERSE is the home for the work I make, and Mehru is the name I sign it with.
I work mostly with painting and photography, exploring a wide range of subjects—portraits, fragments, memories, and moments.
This space is a landing ground for what I see, what I feel, and what I’m trying to understand. It’s not a front. It’s just the name I’ve given to the place where things unspoken can take form.
I’m drawn to what can be seen or felt, but that can’t be said simply.
My work is always in search of magic—capturing the ephemeral and transforming it into something enduring. It explores balance and contrast, and the tension of one thing versus another.
Welcome to the MEHRUNIVERSE: we orbit what matters, we archive what’s fleeting.
I’m glad you’re here.
My obsessions with taking pictures, immersing myself in nature, drawing and painting anatomy, researching and exploring, building and playing, have always been part of my person — even the tiny, three-year-old me.
Everyone seems to be enchanted by the ephemeral — florists stay in business — and I am no exception. I have always adored the way a flower petal holds a metallic, twilight-inspired shimmer, a softness, and an unnameable hue. How does one capture that, forever?
Challenges, hard lessons, difficulty, and friction took great part in molding me into who I am.
But like Gwendolyn Brooks’ Speech to the Young—
“Even if you are not ready for the day, it cannot always be night.”
One must have darkness to have light.
WITH LOVE, AND MY BEST, ALWAYS,
MEHRU