Alina is a multidisciplinary emerging artist from Western Australia who experiments with diverse and alternative media to express her artistic vision. Identity politics and diaspora are themes that have been central to her practice. These themes and motifs often reflect her own personal relationships with nature and the environment. She finds that using ceramics, however, provides her with an opportunity to create works that are both tactile and visually stimulating, and that embody a sense of nostalgia and a connection to her past. Using visual metaphors, Alina strives to express the complex nuances of home, belonging, and displacement that she has experienced. The dialogic narratives in Alina's artwork reveal specific thoughts and perspectives that speak to her life experiences. The inspiration for her work stems from her childhood memories of growing up in the foothills of the Himalayas and then migrating to the Goldfields of Western Australia. A growing interest in cultural similarities and shared experiences is apparent in her work. In an increasingly fragmented world, the artworks encourage dialogue about human interconnectedness through combining and engaging diverse materials and processes. For example, she has soaked ceramic objects in tea, drawing on her memories of the verdant tea gardens of India. She has combined iconic Australian eucalyptus with West Australian sandalwood in a traditional Indian art form called alpona. Alina believes that her art speaks to the complexity of mixed emotions felt by a growing sector of the world population in an age of rapid globalization, displacement, and migration. She believes that through an act of sharing, there is potential to strengthen human bonds. Her portfolio also features portraiture, painting, and poetry, which are skills that Alina continues to hone. Her artworks convey an emotional vulnerability that she can only express through art.