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“What if a contemporary design house built its collection around five landscapes of feeling?”
Ainthinai Atelier | Five landscapes. Five states of being.
Tamil Sangam love poetry associates different situations and emotions with landscapes:
- > Kurinji with mountains and union
-> Mullai with forest/pastoral settings and waiting
-> Marutham with cultivated land and relationship conflict
-> Neithal with the coast and longing
-> Palai with harsh dry landscapes and separation.
These are poetic relationships, not simply five decorative nature themes.
The literary framework comes from Sangam poetry; the visual treatment is developed from these identified archival images.
Note: mixed with multiple styles
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