// my current alter-ego, obsession & mutant love ~ Erythrean 👽🪐🩸
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meaning “of or relating to the sea” & further derived from the scientific name for red i.e. ‘erythro’.
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image shot by @hansrajdochaniya in collab with @fishmoonfetus
// @fishmoonfetus Post-human Prosthesis
Reimagining the existing helmet - an object traditionally associated with safety and protection - as an artefact from a speculative future. Composed of archival materials collected over the years - animal bones, wood and human hair - the piece holds traces of multiple lives, landscapes, and temporalities. Each fragment is both remnant and memory, attached onto the industrial form to create a living archive of fragility and endurance.
The work extends my ongoing explorations of gender identity, drag, architecture, and the lives of resisting creatures surviving an uncertain future. The inclusion of the ponytail queers the object further, blurring human and non-human, masculine and feminine, material and body. Positioned between relic and prophecy, the helmet gestures towards a post-apocalyptic landscape where identities and species dissolve into one another. It asks what protection might mean in an age of ecological and existential uncertainty, and what forms of memory and care we choose to carry into the futures we both fear and forge.
The sculptural work gestures towards mutation, hybridity, and the collapse of boundaries between human / animal / machine / other. Inspired by queer futurism, evolutionary mutation and speculative ecologies.
Hair from @luxehairbyinfinity
Text by @abhishekdesai333
Helmet transmutation for @startindia x @royalenfieldsocialmission ~ @helmets_for_india campaign
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#artobject #woodwork #boneart #headgear #fishmoonfestus
// wood, bones & hormones (no, just actual human hair) 🪵☠️💇🏻♀️ are the special ingredients that went into the making of this Helmet for @startindia x @royalenfieldsocialmission
Getting my hands dirty & working with my carpenters in the workshop, is one of my most favorite things to do! Here’s some BTS from what went down in the workshop, on this very saw-dusty day 🪚
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#visualart #sculpture #woodwork #boneart #haircraft #headgear #workshop #startindia #royalenfieldsocialmission #helmetart #transmutation #fishmoonfestus
// moon dance 🌚 ~ painted an eclipse for @aseemkapoor_official
Performance painting for a beaut concept film shot & directed by @pranoysarkar & @aksharma_ for the brand’s new collection, screened at their runway presentation at @lakmefashionwk
Special thenx to @aksharma_ for bringing me on board! 🖤
// #wip from my @fishmoonfetus mutant series + nice light in the studio + kiki (my beby obsession) + this recurring peculiar but familiar colour combination of cardinal red & a pale purple / periwinkle.
PS. peeps think ‘Kiki’ is a strange name for a cat, but isn’t ‘Periwinkle’ such a weird name for a colour?! Sounds like the title of a naughty nursery rhyme to me.
// stayed up till 3AM sketching this artwork on my ipad, only for @anupriyasatish to permanently drill into my skin the next day! It’s an @0sheen x @rekitnow and I’m fully obsessed with this beaut new tattoo 🩸🔥
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#flametattoo #tattoodesign #tattooillustration #matchtattoo #tattoosketch #osheenobsessions
// creating 3 dimensional versions of these black mutant droplets you might’ve seen often in my work 🩸🖤
In the @fishmoonfetus world, the mutants have many lives. Each droplet represents a life they’ve lived & lost. The number of droplets seen on a mutant, at any given point, tells you how many lives they’ve lived / how many times they’ve died. 🥀🪦💧
amen.
#transmutation #scifiart #manylives #queerart #mutant #drag #droplet #lifeisagame #wip #fishmoonfetus
// very movie poster like stills from the Dragalactiq Vivarium of @0sheen & @dameimfala ’s act - a drag duo exploring the idea of Queer Rage using aerial + floor work.
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@sushiru_ as Dame Imfala playing an infuriated Queen, feeling helpless & defeated by the bitter worldly realities of her existence, only to be further tormented by her dark thoughts & the hovering demon inside her head, as embodied by @0sheen 🎎🌪️🎭
a video excerpt of their act coming soon!
📸 shot by @manutsavsorot
#cirque #theatrics #dragqueens #aerialdrag #dragbattle #scissorsisters #dragperformance #artinstallation #aerialstraps #aerialact #queer #drag #vivarium #queerartist #performanceart #magneticfields #magfields2023 #dragalactiq
