eshma Valliappan is recognized as a mental health advocate. She shortened her name to Val Resh in the beginning of her career to protect her identity with schizophrenia. She lives between the land of what is termed to be madness and psychosis without medications while having shared her insights of the shamanic, spiritual and esoteric with many others. Her graphical to grotesque, abstract to impressionistic styles depict the constant existential variables of the human condition that cannot be defined or constraint to one style, medium or representation. When creating, she is guided by the voices she hears and the visions that surface during the process. Her art is never planned while the creative process is experienced as a portal between two or more dimensions which can be seen and felt in her work. Her goal is to evoke a sense of different sensory experiences where colours can be heard, movements can be felt and that reality be a shared hallucination.
