Crafting Stories Between two worlds
Hello and Welcome
I am Sameeksha Mehra, an artist rooted in India and currently based in Stockholm. Since 2017, I have lived and worked in Sweden with my family, engaging with its art practices, material cultures, and ways of seeing. Moving between these geographies has shaped how I think, make, and tell stories through objects.
My practice has always grown from connection. Connection to land, to people, to inherited knowledge, and to craft as part of everyday life. Growing up in India, creativity was never separated from living. It existed in homes, streets, workshops, and villages. Making was not something observed from a distance. It was something done with hands, time, and care.
I come from the mountains of India, a landscape that continues to ground my work. I remember quiet mornings where mist moved slowly across the hills, tea stalls opened one by one, bakeries came alive, and a carpenter began his day by the roadside. These rhythms felt inseparable from the land itself. Craft existed in close dialogue with nature. Every handmade object carried the presence of earth, material, and touch. These early impressions form the foundation of my artistic language.
Living in Sweden introduced another way of working. The landscape, the pace, and the design culture invited attentiveness, restraint, and clarity. Over time, my practice began to hold space for both. From this ongoing exchange, The Buraansh Local took shape.
The Buraansh Local is a platform for objects and stories. It brings forward lesser known Indian crafts and the artisans behind them, while allowing space for contemporary interpretation. The focus is on process, material intelligence, and the lives that shape each piece. It is a meeting point where heritage continues to evolve through careful collaboration and shared respect.
Color theory
Color sits at the center of my work. It functions as language, memory, and energy. Growing up in India meant living surrounded by color. It existed in landscapes, clothing, rituals, and daily gestures. These colors stayed with me, embedded in how I sense and respond to the world.
In Stockholm, I became more aware of how color operates emotionally and spatially. This awareness deepened my relationship with it. Color, for me, carries presence. It holds history, movement, and emotion. It allows complexity to exist without explanation.
My approach embraces fullness and layering. Each piece carries chromatic choices that reflect lived experiences, shared histories, and personal intuition. Color becomes a way to hold multiple narratives within a single object. It gives form to identity as something evolving and expansive.
Every object I design is meant to be experienced. To be felt through surface, weight, and hue. Each color contributes to a larger story of continuity, transformation, and belonging.
Welcome to The Buraansh Local
Through The Buraansh Local, I invite you to engage with craft as living knowledge. To connect with the hands, materials, and stories that shape each piece. Within every object exists time, memory, and intention. These stories move across places, generations, and cultures, quietly linking us through the act of making.