Artist Marisa Caichiolo works with textiles and embroidery, transforming everyday objects into intimate vessels of collective history that centre around displacement, violence, and disappearance. Her works give physical presence to stories that are often silenced or erased, holding space for the pas
Travelling and photographing communities from rural India to rural Germany has taught me that there is no single ‘right’ way to live. More importantly, it has shown me how we are fundamentally the same despite our differences. We all share universal desires, joys, and tragedies—bonds t
To nourish is a political act. Cheesemaking is a craft that combines milk, rennet, cultures, and salt. Yet within a capitalist economy, this craft is transformed into a commodity. The standardisation of food products like cheese, alongside industrial dairying, produces food that does not truly nour
The Sea is a Woman The fragile human body, entrapped in concrete ideas that place humans above nature, separated from the living systems of Earth, suffers from amnesia. But as water bodies, we can reclaim memories; through sweat and tears, blood and semen, we become part of the hydrosphere. Fluidit
The Erotics of Awe is a poetry collection in which Byuka visualises ecological intimacy. These poems trace the mysterious & animist forces between people and places - the collective body with its entanglement of lineages, vulnerabilities, desires and resonance. That hauntological world-building that
Artist Alicja Kwade investigates the boundaries between the natural and the constructed, inviting viewers to reconsider their place within vast systems of time, matter, and ultimately meaning. Working with materials like stone, metal, and glass, her practice is a collaboration with the earth itself.
What if we shifted toward giving experiences, time, and things made by hand? Gifts that cost our own energy, not the planet’s? We are coming to the end of the second hottest year on record, having just passed the consumerist ritual of Black Friday, and are now deep into a December littered with
What if landscapes were alive? Born, shaped, and aged through deep time—mountains rising like adolescents, rivers maturing into elders, glaciers carrying millennia in their ice. @priyanka.parihar16 reflects on a living Himalayan body: from the fierce youth of the Ganga to the quiet death of
Shapeshifter You can be lava or a tiny pebble Like, I can be turbulent or somewhat stable. Sometimes a tornado, sometimes a light breeze I too can go fast or move with ease. A feeble flame quietly eating at the wood or a gluttonous wildfire. I too can be restrained or a […]
In the heart of Mumbai’s congested streets, architect Tejas Sidnal asked a radical question: Can we design beauty out of pollution? Could it be possible to turn carbon-rich waste like tyres into a sustainable building material instead of an environmental hazard? I was nine years old when I first m