People come in all shapes and sizes
Kailash Pradhan and Achyut Siddu
Conceived as a training and creative development exercise, this zine introduced storyboarding as a narrative tool for Pardhaan Gond artists. Built through the process of visual translation and collaborative making, the works explore how sequence, character, and motif can be adapted into zine form while remaining rooted in Gond visual language and oral imagination.
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Book Details
ISBN: 978-81-975775-7-4
Pages: 24
Number of illustrations: 9
Size: 5 x 7" (127 x 180 mm), Paperback
Date of Publishing: 2023
Language(s): English
Publisher(s): Loksutr Social LLP
Rights Available: World rights
About the Author
Achyut Siddu
Achyut Siddu is an architect, writer, curator, and the co-founder of Loksutr. His practice brings together literary, ethnographic, and curatorial approaches to work with Indigenous communities in documenting and reimagining traditional knowledge systems. He is especially interested in how oral traditions can be shaped into contemporary visual and narrative forms without losing their cultural depth.
About the Artist
Kailash Pradhan
Kailash Pradhaan is a Pardhaan Gond artist from Patangarh, Dindori, Madhya Pradesh. He belongs to a community whose long tradition of song, rhythm, and narration has sustained the oral histories of the Gond people across generations. Drawing from this inheritance, Kailash translates ancestral memory into visual form with a language marked by flowing lines, vibrant colour, and a deep sensitivity to the natural world. His practice reflects a close engagement with myth, ecology, and community knowledge.
ABOUT THE artform
Pardhaan Gond Art
Pardhaan Gond art is a contemporary Indian art form which evolved around Jangarh Singh Shyam as its progenitor in the 1980's. The art form is now carried forward and developed by the people from his own tribe. Traditionally, the Pardhaans who were the bards of the Gond tribe, sang songs of the ancestors of their Gond patrons and other epics.
Their paintings thus predominantly depict this intangible cultural heritage which comprise of lores, idioms, metaphors, proverbs, social practices, their deities and rituals associated with them.