2024
Paperclay Chess
A board of pulp, colour and fibre. Light as air, dense as thought, built by hand for play, pause and losing track of time.
2024
Paperclay Chess
Paperclay Chess
A board of pulp, colour and fibre. Light as air, dense as thought, built by hand for play, pause and losing track of time.
A board of pulp, colour and fibre. Light as air, dense as thought, built by hand for play, pause and losing track of time.
2024
Paperclay Chess
A board of pulp, colour and fibre. Light as air, dense as thought, built by hand for play, pause and losing track of time.
2024
Paperclay Chess
A board of pulp, colour and fibre. Light as air, dense as thought, built by hand for play, pause and losing track of time.
A new skin in every block
Feathered with indigo
Rubbed to grain
From afar, I do read as a game
Up close, I am rather a memory map
Bricks of sun-dried paperclay
Joined in rosewood, sanded & smooth
Not much different from a piece of wood
A new skin in every block
Feathered with indigo
Rubbed to grain
From afar, I do read as a game
Up close, I am rather a memory map
Bricks of sun-dried paperclay
Joined in rosewood, sanded & smooth
Not much different from a piece of wood
A new skin in every block
Feathered with indigo
Rubbed to grain
From afar, I do read as a game
Up close, I am rather a memory map
Bricks of sun-dried paperclay
Joined in rosewood, sanded & smooth
Not much different from a piece of wood
Paperclay is an irony in materiality. Paper that holds form. Clay resists it. Paper pulp mix, cast into frames & sun-drenched. Each brick shifts, cracks & settles into itself. No two come out the same. And that is the very beauty of it.
Cut, sand, polish, brush & repeat. While the chessmen speak a language of their own. So do the living colours, textures and cracks.
Cut, sand, polish, brush & repeat. While the chessmen speak a language of their own. So do the living colours, textures and cracks.
Coconut coir pieces made for a game installation became the inspiration, blocks from Pasti event of December 2023 became the material. We keep working — one piece at a time, without thinking too far ahead. And when we pay attention, it is often the material itself that shows us the way
— Keshavi & Imran
Coconut coir pieces made for a game installation became the inspiration, blocks from Pasti event of December 2023 became the material. We keep working — one piece at a time, without thinking too far ahead. And when we pay attention, it is often the material itself that shows us the way
— Keshavi & Imran
An armature of coconut coir.
A rosewood joinery of slits,
I am paper holding the lineage of wood
I am an echo of humble returns.
Paper is born from wood - once hardened, perhaps it begins to remember. It holds weight, takes shape and yet stays light.
Paper is born from wood - once hardened, perhaps it begins to remember. It holds weight, takes shape and yet stays light.
Paper is born from wood - once hardened, perhaps it begins to remember. It holds weight, takes shape and yet stays light.
An armature of coconut coir.
A rosewood joinery of slits,
I am paper holding the lineage of wood
I am an echo of humble returns.
An armature of coconut coir.
A rosewood joinery of slits,
I am paper holding the lineage of wood
I am an echo of humble returns.
