Hiranyagarbha
Hampi Art Labs— India
Installation - 2025
Blue is continually becoming
Size 12 × (1000 × 1000 mm)
Pleated: approx. 500 × 500 mm each
Installation dimensions variable
Material
Handwoven cotton
Reduction indigo
Rice starch
Glass mirrors
Process
Redcution
Hand dyeing
Pleating
Rice starch
Form
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Each panel is pleated by hand before installation, allowing the textile to hold light, shadow and movement.
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Steam setting
Hiranyagarbha refers to the continual emergence of life.
Hiranyagarbha is a continual state of becoming. Like indigo itself, every moment carries a subtle transformation. Nothing remains fixed; every shade is already changing into another.
Developed at Hampi Art Labs, the work responds to Hampi's history as a place where materials, crafts and knowledge moved across regions during the Vijayanagara Empire. Indigo travelled through many landscapes, yet every place shaped it differently through its own climate, cultivation and traditions of making.
Today we often recognise indigo as a colour, while the people, places and processes that bring it into being remain unseen. Hiranyagarbha returns attention to these living relationships through the continual transformation of blue.