Not Handmade. Not Machine-Made. Thought-Made.

There’s a noticeable shift happening in the creative world right now.

As artificial intelligence and automation continue to accelerate, people are slowing down in a different way—by paying closer attention to how things are made. Craft, especially Indian craft, is being rediscovered, revalued, and respected. And that’s a beautiful thing.

But the conversation doesn’t need to stop at choosing sides.

It doesn’t have to be handmade versus machine-made.

The future of art and design lies somewhere in between—where intention matters more than method, and where tradition and technology can exist in the same breath.

Craft Is Not Nostalgia

Indian crafts are often spoken about with a sense of sentimentality—as something to preserve, protect, or look back at. But craft isn’t fragile history. It’s accumulated intelligence.

It’s material knowledge passed down through hands—how stone responds to pressure, how light behaves through translucency, how imperfections add character rather than flaw.

When a material like alabaster is carved by hand, it isn’t just about the act itself. It’s about patience, intuition, and years of understanding embedded in every curve. That kind of depth can’t be replicated by speed or shortcuts.

Technology Is Not the Enemy

At the same time, technology isn’t here to erase creativity. Used thoughtfully, it expands it.

My background in graphic design has deeply influenced how I approach materials today. Digital tools, precision techniques, and controlled processes allow me to achieve finishes and gradients on aluminium that simply wouldn’t be possible otherwise. They bring accuracy, consistency, and a contemporary sharpness to the work.

Technology, in this sense, becomes a collaborator—not a replacement. It helps push materials beyond their expected roles while still respecting their nature.

Finding the Middle Ground

In my recent works, this balance comes together quietly and naturally.

Aluminium surfaces are shaped using modern processes and design thinking—clean, refined, intentional. Alongside them, alabaster globes are intricately hand-carved, each one slightly different, carrying the human touch that only time and skill can create.

Nothing here is forced.

Craft isn’t added for ornamentation.

Technology isn’t used for spectacle.

Each process exists because it belongs to the object and its design language.

When Art, Design, and Function Overlap

This approach allows the work to live in multiple worlds at once. These pieces aren’t just artworks to be looked at, nor are they purely functional objects. They sit somewhere in between—where form holds meaning, and function carries emotion.

Light becomes a material.

Surface becomes a story.

The object becomes part of the space it inhabits.

This is where I find the most honest work happening today—not in extremes, but in thoughtful synthesis.

Thought-Made

Being “thought-made” isn’t about rejecting tools or glorifying process. It’s about intention. About choosing the right method for the right reason. About letting tradition and modernity support each other instead of competing.

In a time of rapid creation and faster consumption, thought-made work asks us to pause. To notice. To live with objects that are considered, not rushed.

Not handmade.

Not machine-made.

Thought-made.