Tejal Shah was born in Bhilai, India, and currently lives in Goa. They graduated with a BA in photography from RMIT, Melbourne, spent a year as an exchange student at the Art Institute of Chicago, and spent a summer trying to get a Master of Fine Arts degree from Bard College in upstate New York. Their practice incorporates everything and anything, including video, photography, performance, food, drawing, sound, installation, and modes of sustainable living. Queerying everything, they often un-self-consciously manifest “the inappropriate/d other”—one whom you cannot appropriate and one who is inappropriate. Experiencing their works entails entering alter-curious worlds riddled with fact, fiction, poetry, and mythology, which compel us to engage with layered propositions on the relationships between interspecies, ecology, gender, post-porn, sexuality, and consciousness. Having recently come out as an ecosexual, they think of themselves as “some kind of artist working on some kind of nature.”