This Illustrated Colour-In Calendar Is All You Need To Kick Off 2017

There is nothing that makes the onset of a new year more real than a new calendar — after all, that is really what it’s all about. Induviduality’s colour-in calendar has given us all a reason to believe that 2017 is going to be the year we’ve been waiting for. We spoke to the artist Indu Harikumar about her series, ‘We Are The Stories We Tell Ourselves,’ to get behind the gorgeous art that preempts the year to come.

“In ‘We Are The Stories We Tell Ourselves’ I have created unique illustrations for you to colour, and to inspire you to add your own stories of love, acceptance, strength, courage and trust. The illustrations can be cut out and framed or sent to friends as postcards,” Indu tells us. She explains that these illustrations started as a means of retaining sanity in between stressful projects she was working on. “A lot of the drawings came from the time telling myself that I was more important than my work and that this maybe the first time I may have got so much international media but I still don’t have to let go of my mornings that I like to share just with tea. Even though the project was very popular, I could take breaks and let go of all that was expected of me and that I didn’t constantly have to perform. These all find expression in the calendar, though I don’t use any words and let people who buy it form and follow their own narrative.”

While Indu doesn’t like to define her style as any one in particular, she seems to have a running theme in her projects — self exploration, searching for meaning in the chaos and creating with what’s available. “I usually use the line —Will recycle anything especially love. This is based on that line too,” she says. We asked her why she decided to use a calendar as a form and her reason was simple enough, she wanted a way to express the notion that we are the foremost important element, and as this is something that rests on a tabletop in direct view, we get this reminder everyday. It’s time to ring in 2017 with the best sort of love there is — self love.

The calendar costs INR 600 and can be brought here

Words: Tansha Vohra