2025 -
Maavu is an ongoing photographic and multimedia project documenting regional Indian mangoes through field recordings, typography, and 3D scans, preserving their cultural, ecological, and sensory presence within Bengaluru’s groves and people.
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SHOWS
2025 British Art Fair​​​​​​​​​​​​
An Augmented-Reality version of Maavu was shown at The Saatchi Gallery, London, for PIVOTAL: DIGITALISM
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Direction, Photography, Photogrammetry, Typography,
Creative Coding, Installation Experience Design,
Spatial Sound and 3D Design
Maavu (mango in Kannada) is an ongoing photographic and multimedia project exploring regional Indian mango varieties through analogue and digital image-making, alongside continued fieldwork in my home city, Bengaluru. Mangoes, captured at different stages of development, undergo an ASCII-inspired transformation into typographic symbols drawn from Kannada and English, mapping a multilingual cycle of growth, consumption, and decay.
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Through portraits of market traders, growers, and surrounding communities, the project traces the cultural, ecological, and seasonal life of this emblematic fruit. By observing how mangoes lose value at the end of the season when tonnes of produce are discarded, Maavu reflects on ecological loss alongside the erosion and transformation of language, labour, and meaning. It honours the sensory and emotional significance of a fruit deeply embedded in collective anticipation and memory.
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Photography is expanded through field recordings, immersive soundscapes, dynamic typography, custom glyphs, and 3D photogrammetry, creating layered encounters that capture the linguistic, visual, and sonic presence of mangoes. By blending traditional photographic practice with experimental mixed-media processes, Maavu is both an archive and a living system preserving ecological and cultural memory while tracing the textures of Bengaluru’s mango groves, markets, waste, and ripening cycles.