Size:
995 mm x 1290 mm
Medium:
Vegan Leather on Vintage Textile
Through soft colours and playful form, the artwork honors what industrial systems deny: a chick allowed to hatch, grow, and simply exist. Cross- stitched with reverence, it illuminates the cruelty of discarded male chicks while offering a tender alternative rooted in spiritual compassion.
Vegan for the Animals is a hand- stitched meditation on innocence, made from vintage Indian textiles once used to wrap spiritual scriptures, now reimagined with vegan leather appliqué and meticulous cross- stitch work. Through a deliberately childlike visual language, the series restores gentleness to beings often unseen, placing them within a sanctuary of colour, play, and reverence.
While whimsical on the surface, the works stand in quiet opposition to the violence normalised in modern food systems. They draw from plant- based cultures, longevity studies, and the artist’s own spiritual practice- suggesting that compassion toward animals and nourishment for humans spring from the same moral root.
In a contemporary world marked by factory farming, discarded male chicks, and industrialised cruelty, these naïve forms become a radical counter- gesture: an insistence that innocence is not an aesthetic, but a worldview.
