contributed a political, hide and seek illustration to the second issue of 100% zine, themed ‘unseen’. it has 10 more real interesting ‘unseen’ takes from different artists. its currently exhibited in filter and available stores all over. gruhaha!
Irom ‘Chanu’ Sharmila, (The Iron Lady of Manipur) is a civil rights activist and poet. She has been on a hunger strike for the last 11 years, demanding the Indian government to repeal the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 (AFSPA), which empowers military forces to arrest, shoot, torture & even kill anyone on the grounds of mere suspicion.
The Root and the Save Sharmila Campaign, Mumbai have enabled an art initiative to support her and extend solidarity to the cause; asking designers, artists, illustrators to create small pieces to be exhibited across the city and then sent to Irom herself.
Below is my postcard. You can download the printable version here. Please do start talking about the AFSPA and its severe affect on the freedoms of people in our troubled states… Thanks!
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i revamped the design for design and architecture magazine, home review.
feb issue now on stands!! pick it up, let me know what you think…
block printing is such a super special indian craft. the stuff that we see is bright and lively and intricate. old stories from villages slyly sneak out…
we were explained the history and shown the ropes by super awesome shymala rao, in her house in mulund where she does a whole lot of blockprinting and loves to have people around and let them go wild…
all you need for blockprinting are a set of steady hands, a keen eye, a giant jute layered table and a fair share of blocks. shymala has thousands of intricately designed blocks that she has collected over the years.
at first we diligently following the neat blockprinter border guidelines. but very soon we are we are rotating blocks, overlapping colours, mixing the unmatchable. block printers near-and-far shudder in chorus.
its exhilarating and we’re buzzing. seven sexy singlets and we could have gone on blocking and printing the entire night. we’ll come again shymala super soon. thanks so so much. we highly recommend blockprinting at shymala’s, just bloody call her now and take the next train. her facebook group is here.
illustrated the cover for celebrate bandra’s souvenir book featuring articles by some lovely people.
this year’s theme is ‘diversity’. check out the festival this entire week, in around bandra!
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