Chhatri

Ayan Das


Project Period: Eight months

For the implementation of a Foundation Project by IFA under Explorations that will include the making of anthotype prints (using light-sensitive plant pigments) from medicinal plants gathered from Thurga River, Ajodhya Hills, Purulia, towards the making of a bilingual Santali-Bengali/English zine of anthotype prints. The outcome of the project will be a series of anthotype prints made from medicinal plants gathered along the Thurga River, as a fading archive and a bilingual zine. The Project Coordinator’s deliverables to IFA with the final report will be a bilingual Santali-Bengali/English zine of the anthotype prints. Project funds will pay for contract fees, travel and living, publication, printing, workshop and materials.