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Every 8 Minutes: A Reflection, for Legacies of War
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International Journal of Education Through Art - Vol. 21 No. 1 (2025): Conflict, Environmental Disaster and their Aftermath: Repairing Our Broken World through Art - https://intellectdiscover.com/content/journals/eta/21/1
Visual Essay Divining through artmaking to create a mended world
This visual essay is an artmaking-research-based inquiry that considers how we can mend our world by addressing the hybridity and malleability of notions like identity, home, materiality and future(s). This work explores how artists and art educators can contribute to the imagination and futurism(s) that valorize and repair our environment. It also acknowledges the role of the more-than-human world as collaborators in this world-making process. This inquiry is a form of artistic divination to interrogate the artist–researcher’s Indian American identity. Through photographs and found imagery from South India and the United States, such as saris, knitted artwork and scans of dried plant material, I envision future(s) through artmaking and research. Drawing on notions of pluriversality and decoloniality, this visual essay explores the world-making potentialities of this artmaking and research practice. Personal reflections through artmaking and writing promote environmentally aware practices of making, thinking and world-making, offering a vision of a mended world.
Visual Essay Divining through artmaking to create a mended world
This visual essay is an artmaking-research-based inquiry that considers how we can mend our world by addressing the hybridity and malleability of notions like identity, home, materiality and future(s). This work explores how artists and art educators can contribute to the imagination and futurism(s) that valorize and repair our environment. It also acknowledges the role of the more-than-human world as collaborators in this world-making process. This inquiry is a form of artistic divination to interrogate the artist–researcher’s Indian American identity. Through photographs and found imagery from South India and the United States, such as saris, knitted artwork and scans of dried plant material, I envision future(s) through artmaking and research. Drawing on notions of pluriversality and decoloniality, this visual essay explores the world-making potentialities of this artmaking and research practice. Personal reflections through artmaking and writing promote environmentally aware practices of making, thinking and world-making, offering a vision of a mended world.
Work in Progress...
- Writing/artmaking that looks to Asian Crit and South Asian Futurisms to provoke futures, possibilities, and imaginaries with world-making possibilities within/through art and design practices
- Natural pigments and materials, upcycle and recycled artmaking, environmentally conscious artmaking
- Empowering non-profit organizations through design guidance and education
- Exploring online collaborative research/artmaking practices
- Research into the impact of the arts in healthcare settings
- decolonial practices- specifically what is at stake when we diffract de/post-colonial theory through posthumanism/new materialism
- Research into gift economies and alternative models to capitalism as related to art and design
- New materialism/post-human onto-epistemologies, entanglements, quantum entanglements (through Barad) and artmaking
- Inquiry into material/materiality through diffractive artmaking practice
- Collaborative installation, performance, and sculpture
- Analog & digital drawings/doodles/thinking