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Avanji Vaze
VRINDAVAN HOUSE
Avanji Vaze is a storyteller, artist, and researcher. Her Indian influences give her stories a tone of folklore. Her work weaves complex themes such as empathy, identity, activism, and relationships with humor, lightness, and ease.
Vrindavan House is set in a utopian world taken over by sophisticated mushrooms that have solved humanity’s most pressing problems. The rich didn’t like this, so they left and the woke artists stayed behind. Seven artists cohabit together in this new world. Inevitably, they form a loving bond with one another. As their relationships grow, so do their complexities. This results in a labyrinth of emotions such as jealousy, affection, anger, and joy. They try to resolve this conflict by having a cooking competition to determine a winner to be the center of their polycule.
Inspired by her brief stint of living in a house full of lovable misfits in the midst of a global pandemic, this story celebrates the messiness of human relationships, adaptability, and community and poses the question: what do we create when there’s no audience to create for?
Digital drawing, 6 × 9 in.
Digital drawing, 6 × 9 in.
Digital drawing, 6 × 9 in.
Digital drawing, 6 × 9 in.