The name Girigari holds a special meaning: giri for mountain, gari for the craft of making — a practice defined by sustained attention to what the landscape holds without announcing itself, and to the slow, careful work it takes to bring those invisible stories into form.
The practice spans printmaking, textile and embroidery, illustration, photography, new media, and now glass. It is shaped by quiet introspection — by the imagination that lives in dreams rather than in the strictly real. Mentored by an artist father, by grandparents who were artists, writers, teachers, freedom fighters and lovers of life; by a mother who is a textile designer and homemaker who made beauty an everyday act; and most importantly by people from all walks of life whose hands have always known how to make something from what is at hand.