He has an acute awareness of light as a material and change agent, and learned to work with glass after being awarded a fellowship to study at Pilchuck Glass School in Washington state. Rasengani’s installation Dwell Within the Light, created with fellow RISD graduate Ashley Harris, was exhibited at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, New York in 2023. Consisting of a series of rotating and stationary sculptures, as well as timber and concrete benches, the large-scale work intertwined narratives of history and landscape and traced the park’s evolution from its origins as the ancestral land of the Lenape, Carnarsie, and Matinecock people.

While at the GUILD Residency, Rasengani is working on a new multimedia project about sculpting light involving the creation of a kinetic sculpture using glass, concrete, metal and timber. “As people walk around the work, they will engage with both the physical object and the play of light and shadow created by movement,” he says.