Introducing
Original works by M.A. Raghu and Alice.
A space for handmade pieces, sculptural works, wall works, art objects, photography, poetry, and original creative work shaped through material, memory, image, texture, and return.
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Studio Nadi Sangama holds the original creative work of M.A. Raghu and Alice.
This is where the work stays closest to the hand of the artist. A piece may become a vessel, a sculptural object, a handmade form, a wall work, a photograph, a print, a surface study, or a form still finding its name.
Each Studio piece is also held with poetry. The poem is not a separate category. It is part of the work’s language: a written reflection that carries the feeling, memory, or story behind what was made.
The Studio is a place of material transformation, artistic return, image, object, surface, and word.
Studio Nadi Sangama is rooted in Trinidad and Tobago, a twin-island nation at the southern edge of the Caribbean.
Before colonial arrival, these islands were home to Indigenous First Peoples whose languages, place names, foodways, materials, and ways of living remain woven into the land. Rivers, mountains, villages, plants, and coastal places still carry traces of that memory.
The names of these collections honor that living inheritance.
They are not used as decoration. They are used as a way of listening more closely to place.
Each collection is named through a Caribbean and Indigenous lens, connecting the work to water, sea, forest, shelter, and the older memory of the land that holds us.
Studio Nadi Sangama Collections
Original works shaped by land, water, memory, material, and the living inheritance of place.
The Tona Collection follows water as origin, movement, and return.
Works shaped by river, rain, clay, flow, fertility, soft erosion, and the quiet intelligence of water moving through land.
Tona draws from the Indigenous linguistic root preserved in the Trinidad place name Tunapuna, where tona is recorded as meaning water or river.
The Balandra Collection belongs to sea, salt, shell, coral, coastline, wind, tide, and island memory.
Works shaped by the shore, by weathering, by tidal movement, and by the place where land meets water.
Balandra is a coastal place name in Trinidad connected to the sea, shoreline, and island memory.
The Mapou Collection is rooted in forest, bark, shadow, decay, renewal, and ancestral earth.
Works shaped by root systems, fallen wood, dark soil, canopy shade, and the living archive of the forest.
Mapou is preserved in Caribbean Indigenous language memory as a tree and plant name.
The Ajoupa Series holds shelter, home, gathering, protection, ritual, and communal memory.
Works shaped by refuge, handmade structure, warmth, gathering, and the human need to make home from what the land provides.
Ajoupa is preserved in Caribbean Indigenous language memory as a word connected to building and shelter.
Sculptural works, vessels, art objects, material studies, handmade pieces, and original forms shaped through material, memory, and return.
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Original wall pieces, photography, prints, textural works, and image-based studies made to live in view.
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