my story
I am a first-generation Indian-American woman, raised where success had a very specific shape and being an artist was not it.
I developed a chronic autoimmune disease when I was eleven. My body spent decades trying to tell me something I wasn't ready to hear.
Somewhere in that painful chaos, I started to listen and create with my hands.
This is my first year truly calling myself an artist. That sentence took a lifetime to earn.
what is yātrā
yātrā means movement toward liberation
I carve. I print. One mark at a time.
In linocut there are no mistakes, only unique marks. You cannot put back what you have taken away.
Every piece requires constant acceptance and surrender.
That is not just how I make art. It is how I learned to live and the path I continue to take.
why this mail club
In a world of increasing automation and instant everything, I wanted to make something by hand that arrives slowly.
That you hold and keep.
I made this for those who collect words and art as pieces of themselves.
For those walking their path to know they are not alone.
For those who need a reminder that everything they need is already inside them.
Art can only cross into us when we are open to receiving it.
I made this for you.
- Nami