Most of my early professional work was ethnographic, having received doctoral training in anthropology. I later began crafting stories with materials, sounds and light to express what is beyond language. I still work in relationship with people but mostly, nowadays, with plants and soils whose lessons are far worthier of our attention.

Feb 11

Feb 11 Kawandi: Quilts of Karnataka

Writing, Ethnography, Material Culture

Kawandi are patchwork quilts made by Siddis, the long-residing East Africans of India. Typically crafted by elderly Siddi women who are no longer able to do the primary, and physically grueling, work of farming their Western Ghats homeland in the state of Karnataka these matriarchs… [ Read → ]

Published in UPPERCASE design magazine, 2016: 100-5.

photo Sarah K. Khan

photo Sarah K. Khan

photo Sarah K. Khan

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