Beautiful Power™
Collection
Limited-edition art and objects, made to be seen.
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Embrace The Bindi/
A Practice of Care
2024 · hand-pulled 4-color photo-litho on paper
limited edition of 30 · 11 × 17 in · signed and numbered
Embrace the Bindi is an expression of the EMBRACE visual system. Rooted in the bindi that adorns a woman’s forehead as a point of attention, this hand-pulled print symbolically captures a story of care, visibility, and imperfect human touch.
We have symbols for peace, for recycling, for fair trade, for accessibility. We have none for care.
What has no symbol has no standard. With Embrace the Bindi, we begin to change that.
Also available in sets of two or three.
To make care visible is power. To make it together is Beautiful Power.
About the SAHASRA Bindi project
It began as Sumanma's thesis. At its center is the EIQ spiral. Around it, a vocabulary of forms, each one named and standing for what care is made of.
Care is universal. But it does not have a language of its own.
Sunaina and Sumanma are building that language into a textiles project, rendering it across living craft traditions—embroidery, weaving, thread and block—by the indigenous and regional artisans who keep them. Craft is the translation. Each tradition speaks it in its own hand.
Each piece names its craft, its region, its makers. To make their work visible is care in and of itself. A language of care, read in many hands.
The pieces shown here are rendered samples.
