INK & HOWL
The Artefact Series translates archival Indian temple geometries, pichwai devotional narratives, and lotus botanical studies into contemporary wearable forms. Each piece functions as both garment and cultural document—constructed through the FAD methodology and released in limited editions. These are not fashion products. They are material translations of historical pattern systems, preserved through cloth.
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Anju Shetty
Anju Shetty is the founder of Art'eque, a curatorial practice dedicated to preserving and recontextualizing India's architectural and devotional heritage. With over fifteen years studying antique temple elements, courtyard architecture, and sacred textile traditions, Anju has built one of the most comprehensive private archives of Indian spatial culture.
Her work focuses on rescuing architectural fragments—carved pillars, jaali screens, temple doors, pichwai paintings—from demolition and dispersal, documenting their original contexts, and making them available for contemporary cultural study. Each object in the Art'eque collection carries provenance, historical documentation, and spatial narrative.
For the Ink & Howl Artefact Series, Anju selected five cultural objects from the Art'eque archive that demonstrate the sophistication of Indian pattern systems—from temple geometry to devotional iconography. Her curation ensured each garment translation preserves the structural logic, symbolic density, and cultural authority of the original artefact.
Artefact Series Unveiling
Private Viewing
Exhibition
The Artefact Series launch brings together the complete collection for the first time—five wearable translations presented alongside their source artefacts from the Art'eque archive. Anju Shetty will present the curatorial methodology, explaining how each historical object was studied, analyzed through FAD principles, and translated into contemporary garment form. Attendees will witness the complete journey from temple fragment to wearable artefact, understanding how cultural preservation can continue through cloth.
Attendance is by invitation only
Request Exhibition InvitationLotus Lattice Tee
Derived from temple jaali screen patterns where lotus motifs intersect with geometric lattice structures. The pattern functions as both ornamental relief and architectural ventilation—a sacred geometry made functional. This translation preserves the void-to-solid ratio of the original stone screens while adapting the scale for textile application.
Pichwai Devotional Hoodie
Pichwai paintings function as architectural backdrops for Krishna temples—large-scale textile narratives that organize devotional space through color, composition, and symbolic density. This garment translates the arched temple portal structure found in traditional pichwai compositions, positioning the wearer within the narrative frame. The back print preserves the hierarchical scale and floral border systems characteristic of 18th-century Nathdwara pichwai workshops.
Temple Mandala Tee
Temple floor plans are cosmological diagrams rendered as architectural form—concentric squares radiating from a central sanctum, organizing ritual movement through sacred geometry. This translation extracts the mandala structure from South Indian temple vastu shastra diagrams, preserving the axial symmetry and directional orientation while adapting proportion for chest placement. The garment functions as a wearable cosmogram.
Tree of Life Sweatshirt
The Kalpa Vriksha, or wish-fulfilling tree, appears across Indian temple sculpture as a vertical axis connecting earth and cosmos—roots anchoring below, canopy reaching upward, sacred animals and deities nested within branches. This interpretation translates the hierarchical botanical structure found in Sanchi and Bharhut stupa reliefs into a centered vertical composition, preserving the symbolic density while simplifying branch geometry for textile reproduction.
Lotus Lattice Silk Shirt
An elevated translation of the lotus lattice study, executed in silk to preserve the textile traditions of historical temple donation cloths. The pattern density increases across the garment surface, mimicking the accumulation of carved detail found in temple pillar capitals. Construction follows traditional kurta proportions while introducing contemporary shoulder structure—a synthesis of devotional textile heritage and architectural garment logic.
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