Ayesha shares her journey of choosing an unconventional career path—and thriving in it. Through kinetic sculptures, poetry, and community-led installations, she explores how art can expose power structures, challenge displacement, and become a space for identity and aspiration. Her talk is a call to embrace risk, rethink success, and let creativity lead with purpose. Ayesha Singh is an interdisciplinary artist who examines built architecture as spaces that embed power dynamics, expose the intricate politics inherent in nation-building exercises, migration, displacement, and functions as a location of identity—embodying aspiration, desire, and belief. Her research is experienced through participatory performances with poetry, kinetic sculptures, sculptural line-drawings, public installations of scaffold and images that are created with community involvement, video, sculpture, and often graphite drawings on paper.Ms. Singh, co-founded Art Chain India, driven by the potential for localized assistances and commonalities to create global solidarities within artist communities. It is a movement that seeks to exist beyond the uncertainties of today, to cultivate a politics of autonomy and collaboration, and to decenter conversation, economy, and resources. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx