Gratian was born in Karachi, Pakistan and raised in Brampton, Ontario, Canada. He is a Toronto- based visual artist who works in digital painting and experimental animation. His work is influenced by personal meditations and visionary phenomena like, pareidolia: seeing patterns in random stimulus’, like animals in clouds. His experimental abstract animation style is influenced by entoptic closed-eye visions and mystical music. The artist is deeply fascinated by ancient symbols and esoteric teachings and has been researching these topics for over 10 years.He is interested in digital animation software that uses an analog mark-making style. The artist is graduating with a BFA from the Digital Painting Expanded Animation program at OCAD University in July 2021