Made in winter 2023 for VIS 135 — Design Research Methods — during my senior year. The project was a photographic series examining the over-sexualization of the sari by the Western gaze and the act of reclaiming it. All photographs are my own. The images are embedded throughout — the text on them is part of the work. View Project The sari is not a costume. It is not exotic. It is not an invitation. It is, at its most literal, a length of unstitched fabric — somewhere between