Journeys
When you travel,
a new silence
goes with you,
and if you listen,
you will hear
what your heart would
love to say.
- John O' Donohue
Artistic journeys into depths of consciousness
Can transformation happen instantly?
Srivi's play with transformations in consciousness are deep questions of meditative practice on what it takes for each of us to shift from our worldviews, judgements, opinions, and positionality if compassion and justice are to guide us?
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What does it take to be a friend?Friendship is one of the strangest and strongest journeys in being human. The boundaries of friendship are thin, malleable and the emotional terrain that marks this state of beingness go through incredible transformations across our lives.
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Is it okay to collapse?Pain, grief, desolation, sorrow, death, loss of self - Intimacy with one's own despair is perhaps the harshest journey we make in our quest to live well, happily and meaningfully. How do we make sense of these terrible moments that happen to us?
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"I started painting when I was just a year and a half old. More than four decades have passed and I am still fascinated. I touch my paints and it is as if the door has opened to enchantment, magic and mystery”
Education at the Heart of Social Change
One being at a timeSrivi values the transformation of each person and the potential that this can offer to the world. The immensity of change occurs at the deepest recesses of an individual heart in resonance with the collective
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Between curricula and teacher trainingWhere does the real potential lie, in the design of curricula, or in their transaction by educators? The power of educators and the possibilities of curriculum are exciting spaces of change.
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Walk the earthThe most heartening shifts and transformations happen in nature. Walking is the simplest and most profound act of building connection with all life around us. Walking with students is at the heart of Srivi's pedagogy and creative practice in education.
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I have wandered through different paths and tracts, but the journey has always been through the same forest, the boat has traversed the same sea. I enter the fields by the Kaveri river, and come out of the snow covered peaks in the Himalayas. I walk in and wander into the possibilities of the self, and the rhythms keep shifting. I write poetry and my consciousness shifts.
Past work in empowering through the arts
Children's booksSrivi worked with children's books for almost two decades creating over forty books for children, sharing the stories with them and creating wonder, joy, subtlety and mystery through her illustrations and writing.
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Sesame Street IndiaWorking with Sesame Street India, two years as the Creative Director and three more years as creative consultation, this collection brings together a tremendous body of work in outreach and early childhood education.
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Book KitchensBook kitchens was a project that enabled the young and the old alike to craft their own stories and books empowering participants to be storytellers
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"Books remain artistic forms of inquiry that I cherish. I can travel through the pages of a book creating transformations, transitions, interior landscapes and grow together with the form of the book."
Past work that continues to inspire
Connecting with nature, connecting with selfA film that documents our creative arts and media based environment education project in collaboration with Kids Central, Chennai
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Fooniferse ArtsFooniferse, a company I founded in 2009, and
worked with till 2023; the platform for my work across disciplines and social change. The brochure is a memory of growing, learning and working with people. |
Recover Rebuild RestoreThis was an initiative to provide resources on emotional support to all those who are affected by the Tamil Nadu Floods 2015.
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" And in that afternoon by the sea, in the thresholds of earth, water, air, wind and light, I meet dying turtle, sprightly painted storks, dazzling wire tailed swallows, kind fisherman and playing young children. It is ceaseless this journey into beingness. I wander and I find paths I never imagined...
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