Janarthanan Rudhramoorthy was born in 1984 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, has post graduated in Fine Arts from the prestigious Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai. While conceptualising a way to express this preoccupation, it struck to him that the human body is not very different from a bird's nest. A nest is a place where a living creature stays similarly the human body contains the soul that gives sentience to the body. This idea of physical absence/presence fascinates him and he translates this concept into his work using the notion of a trace. He mostly works with mediums like Iron and stainless steel.