The story behind this script
My name is Mansi. The script you see throughout this site — in the header, and pressed into the work I make — is my name written in Devanagari, the script of my mother tongue.
In Devanagari, a horizontal line called the shirorekha usually runs across the top of the letters, connecting them into a single bound form. It is how the script is traditionally written. It is how I learned to write it as a child in India.
When I adopted this as my artist’s mark, I left that line off. Not out of disrespect, but because I get to decide which traditions I carry forward and which I reshape.
Without the bar, my name still feels complete.
Unbound, it feels more true.
I spent the first twenty-one years of my life in India. I carry the lineage: childhood memories, the taste of certain foods, the reflexes of a culture that shaped me.
But I have also examined much of what I inherited: the expectations placed on women, the hierarchies, the silences, the unquestioned traditions. Some parts I have kept. Some I have set down.
Rooted and free.
That is what I am practicing.
That same tension lives at the heart of all my work.
I am a self-taught artist, a professionally trained writer, and an intuitive community facilitator. To me, these are not separate identities. They are different forms of the same practice: slowing down, noticing more, making meaning tangible, and trusting that small acts create ripples beyond what we can see.
Through essays, paintings, handmade tokens, gatherings, and public acts of quiet connection, I explore what it means to live with presence in a distracted world.
I call it the RIPPLE Practice — not as a brand, but as a name for the way I try to move through the world.
This is a quiet corner of the internet, held intentionally.
If you’d like to explore, there are a few ways in.
Enjoy long-form personal narratives
Create because it brings you joy
Gather, converse, or simply “be”
If you’ve ever wrestled with the desire to create, to give, to matter, I hope you find a pathway here that speaks to you.
