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a new personal project I’ve been building over the past few weekends centered around bbq, food, and a small rooftop setup spending time behind the camera, learning video, and shaping the visual identity along the way building this together, slowly, with a lot of care and thought @thewateverman this is where it begins @singingcoalsbbq fire, food & music by @thewateverman #singingcoalsbbq #rooftopbbq #livefirecooking #cinematicfood #slowliving_create

celestial fragments. kantha-inspired wallpaper studies — looking at how repetition and stitch-like marks can create a sense of rhythm and quiet movement. working with purples, blues, and pinks — keeping the forms minimal, almost like distant orbits. #kantha #surfacepattern #wallpaperdesign #abstractart #colourstudy

City fragments. revisiting a set of kantha- inspired wallpaper explorations. Looking at how stitch, repetition, and irregularity can translate into a digital surface. Developed in collaboration with wariwatai #kantha #textileinspired #surfacepattern #wallpaperdesign #patternlanguage

small watercolour studies. exploring how texture, pigment, and repetition can begin to form a language — something tactile, slow, and slightly unpredictable. #colourstudy #visuallanguage #materialstudy #watercolour #texturestudy

Gin-Jinn This chapter traces the entangled worlds of water, culture, and commerce in Goa, blending ecological analysis, political critique, and mythic storytelling. Moving in two parts, it reads Goa’s hydrological systems alongside the rise of its contemporary gin industry, then reimagines these tensions through a folktale of springs, spirits, and care. From Western Ghats aquifers to village springs, the work maps how tourism, urbanisation, and industry reshape waterscapes and livelihoods. Gin-making becomes a lens on colonial legacies and global flows – celebrating creativity and cosmopolitan enterprise while revealing extractive pressures that drain groundwater and erode cultural landscapes. The folktale mirrors these crises through myth: a sacred spring born of the sage Ekākṣa and guarded by the goddess Banai, where water is sentient, ethical, and judging. Together, the analytical and poetic threads frame water as natural, cultural, and political – a living archive of power, belief, and survival. 📖 Two-Thirds of Us | 2/3rds of Us 🙏🏽 With support from the Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation Creative Arts Grant, VM Salgaocar Fellowship, and Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia Co-Creation Grant @mrinalinimukherjee.foundation @sunaparanta_goa @prohelvetia_newdelhi @teeoui @akanssshaa @sarkar_pri @rheecycled @siddharth_r_malur @johnxaviers @naveenprinters @bhooma.p @es__reichert @anishaimhasly @adriannotz @annsteady3000 #SophieVögele #AnneliesKuypers #GinJinn #TwoThirdsOfUs #WaterAndPower GoaEcologies MythAndPolitics Groundwater EcologicalImagination

Technologies of Future-Past This chapter looks at Goa’s khazan lands as living hydro-agro-aqua systems shaped by over 4,000 years of ecological knowledge and community engineering. Reclaimed from tidal estuaries through bunds, canals, sluice gates (manos), and ponds (poiem), khazans regulate salinity, manage floods, and weave together farming, fishing, and salt-making. Their polyfunctional design – rice fields, fish and prawn ponds, shellfish, coconut groves –supports food and nutrition security while working with tides, seasons, and the moon. Drawing on fieldwork, archives, and ecological study, the chapter places khazans within deep histories of water management, alongside ancient canal and maritime systems. More than productive landscapes, khazans embody an ethic of reciprocity, where soil, water, and life are interdependent. Read as “future-past” technologies, they offer powerful lessons for climate resilience – addressing saline intrusion, flooding, and food insecurity through indigenous engineering and collective care. 📖 Two-Thirds of Us | 2/3rds of Us 🙏🏽 With support from the Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation Creative Arts Grant, VM Salgaocar Fellowship, and Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia Co-Creation Grant @mrinalinimukherjee.foundation @sunaparanta_goa @prohelvetia_newdelhi @teeoui @akanssshaa @sarkar_pri @rheecycled @siddharth_r_malur @johnxaviers @naveenprinters @bhooma.p @es__reichert @anishaimhasly @adriannotz @annsteady3000 #SophieVögele #AnneliesKuypers #TechnologiesOfFuturePast #TwoThirdsOfUs #KhazanLands IndigenousEngineering WaterAndFood ClimateResilience GoaEcologies

2/3rds of Us unfolds as a living archive – to navigate water’s many forms and futures of our shared, fluid inheritance. 2/3rds of Us arises from this shared condition, tracing fluid entanglements between human and more-than-human worlds, shaped by histories of extraction, displacement, and erasure. This is an attempt to listen to the land, to the water, to the community, to those whose worlds are written over and silenced. It unfolds through archiving, mapping, memory, embodiment, and play - across multiple mediums, traditional and digital imagery, shape and form, assemblage, reconstructed glocal materials, soundscapes, performance and web interactivity. The labour and work rests at the intersection of imagination, technology, and resilience. It proposes an aesthetic and critical framework where theory converges with oral histories, traditional knowledge, ecofeminism, caste and race, and the sensibilities of Punk and Futurisms. Here, scientific, historical, and speculative fictions flow together, bridging our Third Worlds with the Global North. The hydroaqueous body is medium, metaphor and subjectile. Two-Thirds of Us | 2/3rds of Us, is made possible by the patronage and the support of the Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation Creative Arts Grant, the VM Salgaocar Fellowship and the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia Co-Creation Grant. @mrinalinimukherjee.foundation @sunaparanta_goa @prohelvetia_newdelhi @teeoui @akanssshaa @sarkar_pri @rheecycled @siddharth_r_malur @johnxaviers @naveenprinters @bhooma.p @es__reichert @anishaimhasly @adriannotz @annsteady3000 #SophieVögele #AnneliesKuypers

Visual languages in colour and form: Over the past years I've been exploring colour through different lenses- this first set is rooted in the colours of Soil. Soil and stone. Textures of earth. Grounded and rooted. #illustration #colourexploration #colourstudy #colourinspiration #visualidentity #terra #designlanguage #visualstorytelling #earthtextures #soilpatterns #organicforms #elementaldesign #textureinspired #EarthStudies

Dabbling with some new techniques #embroideryart #acrylic #acrylicpainting #embroidery #stitching #heart

Neatly framed, this wall now narrates the stories of Bangalore's trees, weather and flora. These linocut artworks are now available as high quality digital prints from my Botanical Series - "Seed Pods" DM me to order! (A4 size Digital prints on archival paper) #seedpods #linocut #linoprint #bangalore #archivalprint #botanical #botanicalillustration #artistsoninstagram #artwork #printmaking #flora #artforsale

Figs & rain #illustration #graphite

Watercolour textures for a new project #watercolour #inkdrawing #textures #pattern