The amygdala is an almond shaped mass of nuclei located deep within the temporal lobe of the brain. The amygdala is involved in the processing of emotions such as fear, anger and pleasure.

Like any other person, his life has been a roller coaster of events and emotions. Photography to him is a form of self representation, a medium to vent out his emotions. It is not the final outcome but the whole process from the emotions and thoughts that go through ones mind before making a photograph to the final print of it which matters to him.

Amydala is a body of work in which he creates images without a camera by distressing negatives in various ways to attain an abstract image representing various states of mind. However the final interpretation of the image is not strict ,being an abstract image, it is up to the viewer to decipher the image. The unique prints are not a result of following any ‘ism’ or other movement but merely a representational form of his expression and emotions. The work often times spontaneous, automatic or subconscious creation tends to be closer to abstract expressionism, a successor of surrealism.

Another important element to the work is the use of negatives which are of no use to the owner, which turned out blank, or are outdated, or in a sense are dead or unusable to the owner. This is of significance for various reasons, be it the concept of cremation of dead bodies in the hindu religion (the negatives are burnt to produce images), the sense of creating a photographic image from blank discarded negatives or the process of distressing and destroying negatives which makes photography not only an artistic but also a physical medium to present his feelings. The prints made in editions of three were created in a darkroom and cannot be similarly recreated again.