about
Through its own lore, SEEMAWORLD is a sanctuary inhabited by fantastical deities - who each act as vessels and / or guardians of each strand responsible for a specific area of output.
SEEMAWORLD is framed conceptually as a theme park, becoming a visual and spatial symbol of how works could / should be experienced - as an immersive world-built portal through which untold and lesser-told stories emerge.
Audiences therefore have individual, tailored experiences in a collective environment.
Underneath SEEMAWORLD the theme park, my deities live in a sewer - a reminder of human waste and the notions of filth, disgust, pollution and impurity attached to such a site.
By extension, the sewer is a motif for the reclamation of untouchability (a social institution and tool for exclusion by way of caste) - and acts as a storytelling catalyst for existing systems of caste to be challenged by SEEMAWORLD, through positive, authentic depictions of Valmiki culture.
This underground conduit serves as a channel for carrying ideas, thoughts, questions and plans to a point of fruition.
Each SEEMAWORLD project is assigned to a deity according to form and output.
The Maternal:: deity of embodiment, maternity, eternity + the self.
Youterus:: deity of resistance, subversion + untouchability.
Earth:: deity of collective realities, transcendence + sapphic desire.
Syahi:: deity of sonic joy, musicality, congregation + radical kindness.
Gorge:: deity of research, fan labour, reflection + criticality.
Boon:: deity of community, access, collaboration + creative exchange.