Deepa Reddy is a cultural anthropologist, college professor, writer, and blogger. Her blog, Pâticheri, explores food from cultivation to consumption, combining personal narratives, recipes, cultural analysis, and research. Her academic background in anthropology explores the complex relationships between various things in the world which don't seem connected but usually are.
Kaajal Modi is an artist-researcher who has a strong material engagement with food, land, water, and the politics of how humans relate to and through these. Their co-creation practice explores how making in collaboration with diverse communities (human, microbial, and otherwise) can be a way to recover climate practices that open up new speculations on how we might live in the future.
Samukelisiwe Siphesihle Dube is a Black, queer multidisciplinary artist and practising tattoo artist from the province of Mpumalanga. Deeply influenced by her late grandmother, she and her mother recreated her garden as a tribute and space for healing. Her work explores nature, grief, and identity through printmaking and plant growth on handmade paper.
