AMBI – THE FESTIVE EDIT
The collection ‘AMBI’ for us is a tattered nostalgia of a vintage kanni jamevaar spliced with Byzantium jewels and aged metal yarns ,.the story goes back to my mother’s inherited heirloom rare woven Ambi tapestry, which we later stretched on a Wooden frame and hung on the wall.
it was long forgotten in the corner of our home , and As it aged , I saw it rotting and tearing apart.With each passing day the the small holes between the foreground and lining kept getting bigger, and the wrong side was fully exposed, leaving the motifs deconstructed. It made me question its state, while being in delicious ambiguity- of BEAUTY or a RUIN. That always inspired me.
So we started with some hand drawn Ambi motifs – which travels from Persia to this Indian subcontinent. After sketching it – we started splicing and reimagining it in all different forms and colours, we never wanted to use the decaying colours , rather it was a celebration of sorts
TECHNIQUES : The artworks are hand painted and then digitised to be printed on natural crepes and mushroom twills enhanced with print appliqués and splicing of print collage with vintage zardozi marori work in fine antique zari and coloured gemstones bead work.
SILHOUETTES : With the belief in comfort and style , without looking too much into trends.
we started getting inspired with Indian Sadhus- the ease of which the things are layered and expressed.
