This collection was born from our fascination with the surrealism already embedded within Indian life. In India, the mythical and the everyday have never really existed separately. We grow up surrounded by symbols, rituals and beliefs that distort logic, scale and reality in beautiful ways. Gods with many arms. Stones treated as sacred. Eyes are believed to protect, witness and awaken consciousness. Things that might appear surreal elsewhere exist here as part of daily life. At the same time, we found ourselves drawn to surrealism’s rejection of pure rationality its belief that instinct, symbolism, emotion and the subconscious also shape how we experience the world. This collection exists somewhere between those two worlds.
Each piece begins with a myth, ritual or belief that has remained constant across generations. We reinterpret these stories through contemporary objects not to preserve them nostalgically, but to allow them to continue living alongside us in new ways. The eye appears throughout the collection as a recurring motif. A symbol shared across both surrealism and Indian cosmology representing intuition, protection, awareness and consciousness itself. But beyond symbolism, this collection is really about attention. About interrupting the way familiarity can make us stop seeing. In India, we are surrounded by extraordinary myths and symbols so constantly that they risk becoming invisible to us. Through these works, we wanted to create objects that make the familiar feel strange again. Objects that slow you down enough to look twice. To reconsider what these stories, symbols and rituals still mean to us today. And perhaps to keep them alive not simply because they were inherited, but because they continue to move us.