Natasha May Platt is a Brooklyn-based mural artist, working under the name @surfaceofbeauty. Her vivid floral murals are inspired by the rhythm and color of textile traditions, and the flow of meditative states of consciousness. Her mural work has been commissioned by Netflix, Google, Disney, Coach, City of Yonkers Mayor's Office, Governor’s Ball Music Festival, the Howard Hughes Corporation, the SoNo Collection, NYNow, and Yumi Kim, among others. Her murals can be found in New York, New Jersey, Chicago, LA, Bali, Mexico, India, and the British Virgin Islands. Natasha’s painting practice and meditation practice are deeply interconnected with each other, and both are a daily ritual and necessity in her life. She experiences color as an energy and consciousness which she channels through her body as she paints. She feels that her work when viewed in person is infused with a high-frequency vibration that is transmitted subconsciously to the viewer. Natasha was born in Delaware and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a BA in philosophy and religion. She was the recipient of the 2010 Gardner Travelling Fellowship for an exploration of textile and embroidery design in India. She lived and worked in Kolkata, India for three years under the fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee, where she immersed herself in the embroidery traditions of India and worked closely with hundreds of skilled artisans. Her aesthetic and artistic consciousness is permeated with memories of this vivid time, and the visual composition of textiles and embroidery underpin her mural work.