Meet our Artists-in-Residence
Waylon J. D’Souza
Waylon is a trans-disciplinary artist and designer with a research-driven practice, collating principles of education, philosophy, and culture to iterate pan-disciplinary experiments in sustainability science.
He has trained in a matrix of symbiotic disciplines including fine arts, animation, aquaponics, permaculture, and industrial design at various institutes.
Using documentation as a tool, he often returns to drawing, photography and painting to express anthropological and contemporary environmental change. Whether it is through gesture, bodily performance, research, or practice, the essential truths that are tied to natural systems weave through the layers of different projects.
He will be collating his experiences in and around the art farm, and will create a series of photo essays, experiments with objects and ingredients , recipes or painting as part of the residency at Art farm.
Saachi Gupta
Saachi is a writer, journalist and the co-founder of Cold Cut Press, an independent digital publication that hopes to counteract the fleeting nature of fast-paced media today.
Her work primarily revolves around womanhood, performance, sexuality and the impact of technology and late-stage capitalism on our daily lives as well as relationships.
During her November residency at The Art Farm, she hopes to expand this sphere of knowledge and move out of her creative comfort zone by working on a series of long-form essays. Seemingly unrelated—ranging from topics like pigeons to crying selfies, these essays have uniting factor: they connect the personal narrative—largely dismissed as self-indulgent—to the political, exploring how those in power alter and shape our perception of the most mundane subjects around us.