Nadi Sangama is a creative house built in honor of the larger home all life belongs to: the earth.
It follows origin through material, culture, memory, and care, staying close to what shaped a thing before it arrived and what kind of life it enters once it leaves the hand.
Art
Material, image, and form shaped through memory, texture, and return.
Earthmade Living
Daily ritual, cloth, home, table, body, and care brought closer to the earth.
Community & Culture
Shared knowledge, cultural memory, story, and creative practice carried forward together.
The Founders
Nadi Sangama began between two artists whose lives had already been shaped by movement, culture, discipline, beauty, and the desire to build a life with more attention.
Marc Anthony
Marc was born in Trinidad and Tobago and has lived across the United States, Europe, Asia, Mexico, and the wider Caribbean and Americas. His path has moved through military service, photography, writing, performance, material work, and a continuing return to ancestry, land, and creative practice.
His work follows the meeting place between image, language, memory, body, and material. He is drawn to what is carried across distance, what is inherited or buried, and what can be brought back into form through attention, discipline, and hand.
Alice Minicozzi (ah-LEE-che mee-nee-KOT-tsee)
Raised in Italy, with chapters of her life shaped by the United Kingdom and Spain, Alice brings a creative sensibility rooted in language, culture, music, beauty, and atmosphere. As a singer, songwriter, artist, and maker, she carries an instinct for nuance: the feeling of a room, the emotion inside a voice, the texture of fabric, the meaning held in small details.
Her fluency in three languages reflects more than speech. It speaks to a life formed through cultural listening, movement, and expression. Through Nadi Sangama, she brings refinement, softness, and a deep sensitivity to what is worn, heard, held, gathered, and lived with.
The Story Between Them
Marc and Alice met while living in different parts of Europe, both carrying lives shaped by travel, art, culture, and reinvention. Their relationship grew through poetry, music, photography, food, language, style, and long conversations about the kind of life they wanted to build.
That search deepened in Italy, where time on Alice’s family farm brought them closer to land, season, labor, fruit, weather, and the patience of making wine. Later, their journey through India opened another current of connection to ancestry, devotion, culture, and return. Eventually, Trinidad and Tobago became the ground where those currents could begin to take form as a house.
Nadi Sangama grew from that meeting. Their story is the first confluence, but the work now widens into art, earthmade living, community, and the stories carried forward by hand.
The Name
Nadī Saṅgama comes from Sanskrit. Nadī means river, while saṅgama means meeting, union, or confluence. Together, the name describes the place where separate currents come together.
We chose it because that idea already existed in our lives.
We came from different histories, cultures, and lineages, yet built a life together without needing those differences to disappear. The name gave language to that meeting: two distinct origins moving into relationship, changing through contact, and creating something shared without becoming the same.
The name also carries a personal connection to India through ancestry and through time spent there. That connection gave the language a deeper resonance, rooted not only in meaning, but in lived and inherited experience.
As Nadi Sangama took shape, the idea of confluence became larger than our own relationship.
A river reaches a confluence carrying the trace of where it has been. When it meets another current, neither origin is erased. Each enters the meeting with its own history, and something new takes form between them.
That is the meaning we continue to hold.
Nadī Saṅgama is a meeting of origins. A place where difference is not dissolved, but brought into relation. Where what came before remains present, even as it moves toward something new.
Trinidad & Tobago
Nadi Sangama was founded in Trinidad and Tobago, a country shaped by an unusually dense relationship between land, water, climate, and culture.
Trinidad lies just off the coast of South America, and its ecology still carries that proximity. Forests, rivers, wetlands, mangroves, estuaries, reefs, seagrass beds, mudflats, and cultivated land exist within a remarkably compressed geography. The influence of the Orinoco reaches into the southern Caribbean, carrying freshwater, sediment, and nutrients into these waters and binding the islands to a much larger ecological system.
That relationship is visible across the country.
Caroni holds vast mangrove wetlands at the edge of land and sea. Nariva moves between forest, swamp, marsh, and open water. In Tobago, Buccoo and Bon Accord reveal the dependence between reef, seagrass, and mangrove, while the Main Ridge preserves an extraordinary continuity of tropical forest and biodiversity.
The landscape is never merely background. It shapes how people live, build, grow, cook, gather, and make.
The cultural life of Trinidad and Tobago carries its own depth. Indigenous history, African memory, Indian inheritance, European influence, migration, language, ritual, music, food, and adaptation have all left their mark. These histories are not abstract. They remain present in the materials we use, the practices we inherit, the things we make, and the ways we understand home.
For Nadi Sangama, this is not simply where the work started.
It is part of the work itself.
The Work of Return
For us, return begins with paying attention to where things come from.
Our work starts close to source: clay gathered from the earth, botanicals and waxes chosen for their material character, photographs made through lived encounters with place. We are interested in what happens when material is allowed to keep something of its origin, even after it has been shaped into something new.
Gathering
We begin with place.
Wild clay is gathered from the ground, botanicals and waxes are chosen with attention to origin, and photography begins by looking closely at what is already there.
Transformation
The hand changes the material without erasing it.
Clay is formed and marked by fire, botanicals become incense, wax becomes flame, and photographs become prints while still carrying traces of their source.
Return
What begins in the world returns to everyday life.
A vessel enters the home, smoke fills a room, flame holds a moment, and a photograph carries the memory of a place into another space.
Connect
Follow Nadi Sangama as the house continues to take shape.
This is where we share new work, studio process, earthmade offerings, field notes, gatherings, collaborations, and the small moments that shape the life behind the house.
Stay close to what is being made, gathered, studied, and carried forward.