2022 / Monsoon Sem / Celebrating Crafts TOI-3

Sarvisetty Swathi

AARI KI SAFARI

Jay Thakkar (Tutor)

Kamna Vyas (Teaching Associate)

Over the course of this semester, I’ve celebrated individual identities which are woven together by the crafts. Each of them represented something different but all of them had something in common, the love for the same. So to celebrate this love for crafts, I've tried to visually narrate a story which celebrates the embroidery craft Aari, it's a modest attempt at celebrating key aspects of this embroidery. The floral patterns, the curvilinear forms, the Aari hook, the embroidery hoop, the community, and a huge history of dedicated artisans. The story is titled Aari ki safari. It’s about two plants that are the protagonists of this tale. They follow the making of an Aari embroidered piece as they become the muse for it.

Aari ki Safari - Final Installation


Details of the Final Installation


Experience Map of Santalpur


Wiring Embroidery workshop


Patching the Experience workshop


Character Collage of our peer


Moving Borders - A collaborative Project


Storyboard of our peer's story


Illustrations of various travel workshops


Collection of craft workshops