Chapter Eight-Localising Asia in Aotearoa, Dunmore Publishing, NZ 2011 Personal narrative: roots – encountering new boundaries from a visual artist’s perception The two most significant aspects of encountering new boundaries are dislocation and association, both geographically and socially. A displacement in location not only transposes our physical entities but also transforms our consciousness about all that has been accumulated and absorbed in the course of time, from people we have met and places in which we have lived. Being a visual artist and an educator, this displacement proposes an artistic response, both in my art practice and my teaching of art. I was born to a working-class second-generation Christian convert family in southern India, and faced the challenges of being a Christian and accepting religious beliefs introduced by the British missionaries during colonisation, while negotiating with the national and regional religions and cultures of India. My exposure