jewellery/sculpture
para(BOXES) of spice, 2024 
Brass, bronze, Cloves, Cinnamon
jewellery/sculpture
parables of protection, 2024
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An aniconic and symbolic modes of more than human systems of protection are made into metallic and mechanical creatures, alchemised by the pressure of curves, patinations, movement and ultimate purpose in relating through wear and speculative function.
In a time of personal and collective grief, these talismans are a testimony to the wisdom of matriarchal and anti-colonial systems of resistance, exilers to the bounds to imperial and racist fantasies we currently live in. The pieces intend to encompass the visceral connections between the process and message, to be mapped on the body like a constellation of cosmologies - noticeable in the continuous connection to spirals, eyes and sacred plants that appear in mystic art and poetry from India.
Fire and turning elements act as markers of time and state an ode to alchemical lessons of change, stained impermanently on metal, tarnishing, distorting; whilst symbolic of disruptive, revolutionary and hopeful beginnings.
An aniconic and symbolic modes of more than human systems of protection are made into metallic and mechanical creatures, alchemised by the pressure of curves, patinations, movement and ultimate purpose in relating through wear and speculative function.
In a time of personal and collective grief, these talismans are a testimony to the wisdom of matriarchal and anti-colonial systems of resistance, exilers to the bounds to imperial and racist fantasies we currently live in. The pieces intend to encompass the visceral connections between the process and message, to be mapped on the body like a constellation of cosmologies - noticeable in the continuous connection to spirals, eyes and sacred plants that appear in mystic art and poetry from India.
Fire and turning elements act as markers of time and state an ode to alchemical lessons of change, stained impermanently on metal, tarnishing, distorting; whilst symbolic of disruptive, revolutionary and hopeful beginnings.
Copper, .925 Silver
jewellery/sculpture
‘Devas’ 2023
In this surrealist body of wearable metal pieces, each one is born from the iconography and cosmologies presented around Hindu deities and their physical forms - mirroring the jewellery and name itself.
Made through digital formations, each jewel is evidence of a creative synthesis of ancient drawings with modern techniques - creating a new mythology that enables us to interact and relate to a world remote from us. Combined with this is a sense of haptic healing portrayed through the simulation of touch - mimicked through the Mudras as sacred hand gestures adorning the body.
The photos are tinged with inspirations derived from old Indian chromolithographs from India's colonial era, which historically helped to democratise depictions of Hindu cosmologies.
Directed by Ayesha Sureya
Shot by Ritika Singh
Made through digital formations, each jewel is evidence of a creative synthesis of ancient drawings with modern techniques - creating a new mythology that enables us to interact and relate to a world remote from us. Combined with this is a sense of haptic healing portrayed through the simulation of touch - mimicked through the Mudras as sacred hand gestures adorning the body.
The photos are tinged with inspirations derived from old Indian chromolithographs from India's colonial era, which historically helped to democratise depictions of Hindu cosmologies.
Directed by Ayesha Sureya
Shot by Ritika Singh
costume/jewellery
Mya Mehmi ‘Parivaar’ video (2022)
jewellery/sculpture
‘solstice, sun kiss’(2022)
Beaded sculpture and beaded tassels worn here in Shivani ‘rise from the dust’ Video
Shot by Ananya
