Across the Universe

the old two-year-lived banner.

some universes have been crossed.

Others need no crossing. :)

The person you love is 78.9% water

The Character from a New book for Children I'm working on by Arshia Sattar

And the Kishkinda Trust.

Stories told by the River Tungabhadra.

Joy. :)

Watch this space

pampa and shiva fall in love

mother earth and Pampa

Hriday Maahi Aarasi

Hriday Maahi Aarasi

The Heart is a Mirror

Inspired by Alex Grey's' Sacred Mirrors'

The Emotional Self

the physical self

The Realized Self

The Higher Self- Love :)

Down by the River to pray

More from the Book I'm doing on hampi by Arshia Sattar. :)

pampasutra

Nilofer Suleman's Exhibition

Come one Come all. :)

“Your task is not to seek for love,

but merely to seek and find

all the barriers within yourself

that you have built against it.”

-Rumi

A Book I'm creating based on the 'Four Fold Path'

The Visionary, The Healer, The Warrior and the Master.

more soon

Rangashankara's Aha-theatre for Children Festival

Some Illustrations Done for Rangashankara and Brittannia's

'Aha!' Theatre Festival

The two images above were used as big decorations in the venue

And the three below were billboards around the city

The Blurb where the logo is placed is mine. :)

Advertising Agency: McCann Erickson, Bangalore, India
Creative Director: Anil Thomas
Art Director: Rathish P Subramaniam
Copywriter: Carl Savio
Illustrator: Shilo shiv suleman
Photographer: Kiran Nama

Fly Light

this months Jetlite cover :)

and some assorted illustrations inside

The Tantricks

Done for the electronicats

tempotantrick

Watercolour Wars

'Artivism' was started during the Fearless Karnataka campaign. The thought behind artivism is to provide an Open space where artists,designers,writers,poets and hopefully one day musicians would link up with different organizations and provide visual identity, posters or any other artform.
It attempts to be a sort of bridge between Activists and Artists who have very different mediums and contexts but a similar vision- to promote creative energy/change rather than destructive energy.

So this is how it works- An NGO/Campaign approaches us- and if the members or some of the members feel for the cause- they design posters and whatever else required collectively. There is no ownership. Everything is open source.print it- Burn it-stick it-make it into a tshirt- put up the poster in your city-in your room. Anything. Once its online- It belongs to everyone. :)
One also has the right to anonymity. No one owns 'Artivism' or Runs it for that matter.
In the long run one also hopes that one could replace all those Che Guevara T-shirts and posters with images and icons that are contextual to the space we live in.

What you can do?
Become a contributor! post the fearless karnataka campaign there have been many many oppurtunities to provide artwork to different groups but not enough people to work on it. We need more hands.
email- watercolourwar@gmail.com if you're interested in contributing/becoming a part of the artivism mailing list. :)

the pinks

To (almost) 5 years of us.

a circle of absolute love and unshakeable power. Shakti.

Winedrunk,moondriven,lovestruck,peace seeking, gypsying,

travelling inside outside-around-astound-growing-learning-freeing-overcoming-

connecting-entwining-barefoot-seeking-love-light and losenges *cough cough*

to discovering-deciphering-tying-sharing-caring-daring-wearing and bearing.

To nights on terraces, in studios, in cars, on beaches, on stars, in fields.

To reinventing, growing old together to discover that we haven't changed since we were 5. :)

To expanding, exploring, traveling, singing, crying, arguing, worrying, running away

and coming back home. To Home. To love. To shaping-shifting-becoming-whole.

to pink-to sink-to ink-to this link between.

To change and separation (in body not soul) that had to come sometime.

Love and Luck to these 5 some of whom will (soon) take on new lives and journeys across topographic oceans.

(top from left to right- me, pint and runes

bottom left to right-ganjesh-niyu and kiripotatoes)

More Tak tak!

spreads from a verrrry spooky book for children by karadi tales

The Earth is the great visible ancient of creativity

The universe is a great big cosmic heart that beats and beats and beats

Response to a Kriya yoga workshop I did this weekend.

Lost picking flowers in the woods

Trees Colours and Wizards

with Lemons, Roses, Rasberries and Winnie and me.

lost in the 100 acre woods

(I like that you're 256 colours too)

Lucid dreaming, earthships, and love that exists in everything that shimmers.

Humming bees, Mothertrees, Long walks and hitch hiking in a confectionary truck :D

Big white clouds, Chai shops, (We're Sailing.)

Everything is Illuminated.

(streams and dreams we follow down)

Silence and Wild flower galaxies.

A council of trees with a million years of memory or mythology

moulded into their skin. They whisper primordial secrets that the wind carries.

A huge eucalyptus. The living tree that deserved absolute silence.

(Rumour has it that if you run through a forest wearing

honey you'll come out with a million butterfly wings on you)

Night wine, The city is just little dots of light from up here.

Upon a Sea of Blissful Awareness.

I've found another home. :)

(more illustrations from the trip coming up)

all photographs courtesy Hari and Ganjesh

Tak Tak!

And another book I'm doing for Karadi tales called 'Tak! Tak!'

This one's a spooky story for kids *gasps *

A new set of postcards

I made for a friends birthday :)

Stick em/steal em/print em.

Hriday Aakash

Animation created for the 'Kabir Project'. :)

Hriday Aakash from Shilo Shiv Suleman on Vimeo.

Hriday Aakash was created out of the 'Kabir Project' In Srishti.
Its a fictional narrative created out of the poetry and ideas as kabir as well as true facts about moths. :)
When we see trees and mountains and rivers we connect with them because we have those very trees growing within us.
'Our body is the sky.
When the lotus in our hearts rain
The sky gets wet'
This story takes place in this Heartscape.
Wikipedia says:
Moths frequently appear to circle artificial lights. One hypothe
sis advanced to explain this behaviour is that moths use a technique of 'Celestial Navigation'.
By maintaining a constant angular relationship to the moon they can fly in a straight line.
Like sailors at sea.
When they see artificial light- they get distracted and circle around it.
Me animation uses this as a metaphor and perhaps a mythology.
The moon is the divine/the truth.
And these artificial lights represents maya that distracts us off our path.
Along the way this moth encounters a Firefly (desire), a Streetlamp (maya/illusion) and
A candle flame (love)
While in search of light.