USE OF ARTSDIARY PHOTOS

© 2018 Sait Akkirman, including all photographs.

Award winning illustrator, cartoonist and ceramicist Anna Crichton,
travelled to Varanasi, India, on a three-month artist residency in 2017
to explore the sculptural potential of bead and thread embroidery and
woodblock carving - and to find an abstract way of telling stories.

The Completeness, 2017
thread, hand loomed cotton, rickshaw canopy canvas

Ganga and the shores of liberation, 2017
thread, hand loomed cotton, rickshaw canopy canvas

The Completeness, 2017 (detail)
thread, hand loomed cotton, rickshaw canopy canvas

1.30 Billion Mouths, 2017
thread, hand loomed cotton, rickshaw canopy canvas

35 Million Strays, 2017
thread, hand loomed cotton, rickshaw canopy canvas

35 Million Strays, 2017 (detail)
thread, hand loomed cotton, rickshaw canopy canvas

Asphyxiation, 2017
hand carved woodblocks, teak, recycled from Indian truck flatbeds
fabric ink on hand loomed silk

Manikarnika Ghat and the bead hunt, 2017
hand carved woodblocks, teak, recycled from Indian truck flatbeds

Manikarnika Ghat and the bead hunt, 2017
fabric ink on hand loomed silk

Dowry cash, gold, property, or kind, 2017
thread, hand loomed cotton, rickshaw canopy canvas

A precious commodity, 2017
thread and glass beads, hand loomed cotton, rickshaw canopy canvas