What if the weirdest water of the Anthropocene is frozen in the desert as an Ice Stupa, a structure that stands simultaneously as salvation and warning?

In Ladakh, glaciers are being rebuilt by hand.

Towering cones of ice rise from the cold desert like frozen monuments; temporary glaciers engineered to store winter stream water in order to survive spring droughts. Designed by environmental innovator Sonam Wangchuk, these Ice Stupas exist somewhere between infrastructure, ritual, and sculpture. The more I read about them, the more they began to feel less like technological objects and more like performative acts of survival.

A Line is Not Just a Line .It is movement made visible. 

Every artist develops their own visual language through marks and lines. Before shape, color, or composition, there is simply movement across a surface. The way we make marks is deeply personal , almost like visual handwriting.

She hears the cries of the forest With each step she took, the earth did heal...  Hymns of Aranyani began in a space between mythology and ecological grief, between ancient texts and contemporary concerns, and between the human and the more-than-human world. This...

mulberry paper wrapped around pine bark— the wind draws with me — Varsha Manglam, Formby Forest field notes The Song of Earth  emerged from time spent in nature, where being among trees and birdsong became a mindful and embodied experience. Spending time outdoors...

What can we see during the period of light? The visible, the known? What can we not see when it is dark? The invisible, the unknown? What and when do we see? As an artist and researcher, I continually return to questions about surrounding perception; what is visible,...

Above - Oil paintings on copper plates by Varsha Manglam , 2024 I created a series of small paintings titled  Bramhasutras , inspired by stories and scenes drawn from the rich mythology of the Vedas. The  Brahma Sutras  are a collection of concise aphorisms that...

Above - Monoprint using earth based pigments, by Varsha Manglam, 2022 Brian Fay’s essay “A Continuous Incompleteness”, published in What Is Drawing? by the Irish Museum of Modern Art, offers a thoughtful and wide-ranging way of thinking about drawing. Fay, both an...

A SACRED HEART AND OTHER SHORT STORIES, is a personal invitation to each of us to live out our own dream, to embrace the uncertainty of life and to rise to meet our own unique destiny with courage and confidence. Its ten inspiring short stories span the globe from the...

Among the manuscripts I encountered, I found the Book of Hours especially beautiful and fascinating. The Book of Hours, a prayer book for everyday use, was often decorated with illustrations and borders painted with expensive pigments that were difficult to obtain at...