Over the past year, Yaminee Patel has narrowed her artistic focus, centering rice as the medium for her work. A symbol of ...

In her downtown Seattle studio, Yaminee Patel painstakingly applies rice grains, yellow and red lentils and buckwheat seeds onto a canvas with Elmer’s glue. Her creative process mirrors the slow, ...

Yaminee Patel, a robotics intern at Amazon, in the kitchen that serves as her workspace in Troy, Ohio. (Photo courtesy of Yaminee Patel) After receiving an offer letter in February to work as an ...

In her downtown Seattle studio, Yaminee Patel painstakingly applies rice grains, yellow and red lentils and buckwheat seeds onto a canvas with Elmer’s glue. Her creative process mirrors the slow, ...