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Artists collective

Make things that hold a memory.

Beneath every Smritis piece is the soul and hand of an artist. The collective brings together secret keepers and story crafters: designers and illustrators, editors, sound artists and filmmakers, mixed media artists, makers of textiles and curios, writers, typographers, bookbinders, photographers, and creators practicing crafts we haven’t even named yet.

A framed portrait of a mother and child on a sunlit wallOld photographs and a film camera on a tableHandmade clay cups and platesHands rolling out clay on a worktableA plain clay vase in soft lightA painter at work on a canvasA film editor working at a laptopA lump of raw clay and its shadowA still life of a peach, a pear and figs

How a piece comes to life

  1. Step 1
    Old photographs and a film camera on a table

    You bring the story.

    Your Engrams, and the object, cloth or keepsake that holds the memory.

  2. Step 2
    A film editor working at a laptop

    Wematch the maker.

    Your director and an artist from the collective read your story together.

  3. Hands rolling out clay on a worktable

    Step 3

    The artist makes it.

    By hand, in conversation with you, from the material itself.

  4. A plain clay vase in soft light
    Step 4

    It comes home.

    Finished, signed, and credited to the hands behind it.

You don’t need to have worked with memory before. What matters is that your work carries feeling, that you listen closely, and that you care about the story behind the thing you’re making.

Your first Dig, for ₹99.

Make your free Smritis account, then try your first Dig. ₹99 for your first Dig and 30 days of digging, online or at our studio in Kolkata. Then ₹499 a month, if you want to keep going.

Dig your own memories, dig family stories with your parents, or invite a group of friends for a life story. The same ₹99 books your first Dig, alone or together.

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