Jessie Kanji is a multi-disciplinary artist, researcher, and educator based in Auckland, Tamaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1997, she explores themes of cultural exchange, memory, and meaning through her practice-led research. Informed by her background in medical science and her family’s migration from Gujarat, India in the 1940s, Kanji’s art searches for a balance between order and chaos. Specializing in print, she graduated with a Postgraduate Diploma of Fine Arts with distinction from Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland in 2023 and has worked across drawing, photography, paper-making, textiles, and ceramics. Kanji evokes the concept of rasa - a state of total absorption and emotional resonance - in the amber-like qualities of her ink, using print as a method of thinking and a lens to view the world’s patterns.