Reach Out
Sachin vyam | Apoorva Mishra | Achyut Siddu
Conceived as a training and creative development exercise, this zine introduces 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: 978-81-975775-9-8
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(S)
Sachin Vyam
Sachin Vyam is a Pardhaan Gond artist based in Anuppur, Madhya Pradesh. His work is shaped by close engagement with community stories, elders, and local traditions, which he interprets through intricate detail and careful composition. For Sachin, painting is an act of remembrance as much as making, where spoken knowledge finds a new life in image. His practice continues the Pardhaan role as keeper of memory, but in a contemporary visual form.
Apoorva Mishra
Apoorva Mishra is an architect, artist, urban designer, researcher, and the co-founder of Loksutr. Her work is grounded in community-led design, Indigenous knowledge systems, and collaborative artistic practice. She has played a key role in shaping the visual language of Loksutr’s projects through contextual research, curatorial design, and close work with artists and storytellers. Through her keen aesthetic sense and deep contextual understanding, she has shaped the vision and visual language of the book which are reflected in this book through its colour direction, composition, and overall visual flow, creating a cohesive and immersive experience.
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.