Silk & Salt

Order in the form of empiricial sciences, or physical sciences often require resource-heavy instruments like super-resolution microscopy, X-ray crystallography and large Hadron Colliders to make paradigm-shifting breakthroughs such as the structure of DNA, or 'Higgs Boson' particles.

Due to historical advances, many of these instruments and the'know-how' of how to use them have concentrated in institutions.

Institutions are places, or spheres where people come together. It is often in these highly dense instutitions that the frontier of progress is advanced. I am interested in these frontiers. Which is why I moved to California a year ago.

But scientific progress is just one modality of order. Anthropologist Levi Strauss does a good job at capturing this with his description of 'hot' societies, with a constant quest of improvement and 'cold' societies that are static, crystalline and harmonious.

While hot societies are revered for sending humans to Mars and curing cancer - there is beauty in the preservation of traditions such as religion & familial bonds that goes lost in this quest.

Backwaters of Alleppey, India ("God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy)

Biological field research station in the rainforest of Kalimantan, Borneo

IDF soldier in Hebron, Palestine where I travelled in my first year of university.

Hebron, Palestine

Founding small holder-coffee town of Mbinga, Tanzania.

Buna stop in Tigray, Ethiopia