OUR PHILOSOPHY

Takshni, is to chisel

It exists to be witnessed, to be walked alongside.
To slow down the eye. To restore the hand.
To remind the world that to live with care is itself an art.
An emergence, from the breath between two silences
where craft met consciousness, and memory met matter.
An emergence, at the intersection of art and thought
Existence, because the world forgot.
Forgot the soil beneath its feet,
the rhythm of its breath, the labour behind its luxury.
Forgot that to create is not to produce
Instead, to remember, to listen, to honour.

Celebrating consciousness – in form, in thought, in being; Takshni is shaped not merely as a platform but as a collective rhythm of artists, artisans, dreamers, thinkers and makers, all sculpting a world that feels, for what is form, if not the echo of feeling that once moved through a hand?

At a time when the world spins faster than we can process, we ask:
What does it mean to live with care? To make with presence? To see with depth?

Our journey is forever unfolding, like clay before it settles, like a thought before it speaks. There was a time, long before now, when to create was to remember — when art was embedded in the everyday, and not elevated out of reach. We do not distinguish between the poet and the potter, the loom and the lyric, with the coexistence of material and meaning, inseparable as breath and body.

Marshall McLuhan said, “The medium is the message” and so we play with many: sculpture, conversation, performance, sound, stillness, not bound by genre or geography. Rooted in being but fluid in creation, like clay in the hands of those who approach with care. Our work resists categorisation. It is neither design, nor decor, nor doctrine but a quiet, conscious rebellion against the commodification of the soul. We are driven by questions of identity and social relations, by the cultural embeddedness of form, and by a desire to restore meaning to the act of creation, working slowly, intentionally. At Takshni, artisans are not technicians. They are theorists in clay, weavers of time, architects of feeling, defying the separation of art from life and of the maker from the meaning.

Walter Benjamin reminded us that to rescue the past is an act of revolution. John Ruskin once said that the strength of a nation lies in the dignity of its artisans. With these core ideas, we gather fragments from forgotten traditions, from stories whispered in dialects, from the inner worlds we abandon to speed and spectacle. It's not about the nostalgia, but the constellation of memory and momentum restoring not what was, but what wants to be again.

We strongly believe the soul of art lies not in objects or materials, but in relations between people, places, rituals, and rhythms. Thus, Takshni exists where Identity meets Imagination, where the local touches the universal, where the ecological and the emotional are not separate paths, but a shared ground.