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Nupur 🌱

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Ishita's grandmother's conch shell, an honor 🐚 fresh & healed
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Both of our mamas liked this tattoo, that's a first :) my mom also plays the conch every evening, so this one reminds me of home <3 taken in Berkeley, California by @nupokes

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4 years ago

"See you forever" ♡ part 3/inifity of Nahr's Zanzibar #henna inspired sleeve. Done with machineee! taken in Berkeley, California by @nupokes

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4 years ago

Chalo oordiba 🦚🦚🦚 Gulugulia ଗଲୁଗୁଲିଆ & Bekaria ବେକାରିଆ long sleeves ~~ drawn, designed, naturally dyed & printed by nu.ish ♡ + the community crew
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Shoutout to the village ~ mama & aunties with the scripting & slang, lil bros with the inspo, our students with the hype always (!), ishita with the silkscreen finesse & design eye, isabel with the natural dye & nayan with the angles 👁️
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Special thank you to my aunties and cousins for putting up with my *bekaria* (useless) workload as my mama put it ~ translating & scripting our silly slang before brushing their teeth in the morning, from across the globe, via whatsapp 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 dhanyabad taken in Mama's Garden by @nupokes

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3 years ago

Meet the artist! Lucky to have worked with Nupur Be through high-stress and high-beauty, high-humanity environments with young people and families. The students from the original photo are also very close to our hearts, and it is special to feel their presence in these pages #EverydayRJ

[ image description: close up of the watercolor that is on the cover of the book "Everyday Restorative Justice: Moving from Crisis Response to Positive School Culture." High school students are sitting in circle including two Muslim girls wearing hijabs and Black, Filipino and Latino students with plant and floral imagery emerging out of the circle. Picture of the artist, Nupur, a South Asian woman with curly medium-length dark hair, and her words: "This watercolor piece is based on a photo of students training to lead circle with their peers. I hoped to capture the essence of circles we ran - the connection, laughter, depth, and interconnectedness to all the elements around us. I am very honored to channel the energy of this sacred space through art." ] by @nupokes

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Moon music 🌙 ~~ I'm doing a live radio set tomorrow night inspired by the 🌕! Tune in monday at 9pm on 101.5 FM if you're in LA 📻 or stream live at @kqbhla. Ty @practicayproceso for the invitation to be creative 🫶🏽
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I'm not a dj like that so just gimme props if I stumble plz hahaha 😌📀📀📀
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Image - my full moon shadow + some moon flowers from a walk 🌑 taken in Los Angeles, California by @nupokes

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2 years ago

homecoming ~~ It's been a long time comin, I'm relocating to my home in the LA area! I have many unfinished tatts, some are in the ethers, some sleeves I gotta finish, some touch ups 💫 all in time..
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that's the beauty of this work, I feel like I get to connect and collab with people over time. while we age, our creativity moves and changes with us too. I get to meet people in different points of that flow, & create right then and there. It's a moment ✨ It's a beautiful thing, to grow together in this way
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much love to everyone I got to spend time with in the yay, especially my students <3 y'all will always be with me wherever I go ☹️☹️☹️!! Rest of y'all, come visit me where the sun is always shining ^⁠_⁠^ I'll be trading in my beanies for booty shorts soooon 😌 🌞 🌊🌴📍562!
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photos ~ my colored pencil mural in my bay home + a doodle of my dreams by @nupokes

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2 years ago

It's raining here today💧💧💧More reflections on water from last year, based on journal sketches. There are lil animals that appeared in this one somehow 🐋😩🌊 ... Mostly been doing freehand flow these days, eternally grateful ~~ taken in Berkeley, California by @nupokes

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2 years ago

The beginnings of a flowwing henna sleeve ~~ inspired by the pacifica waters & mehndi 🫧🍃 taken in Berkeley, California by @nupokes

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2 years ago

Our interpretation of the star 🌟 tarot, fresh & healed. Thank you swati <3
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Just did a touch up last week and realized it's been almost a year since I did this tatt?! taken in Berkeley, California by @nupokes

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2 years ago

from a sketch sesh with vina yesterday ☼ reminding me I need to draw more for myself ⚘ by @nupokes

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3 years ago

hand doodles ⭑✿⭑ freestyle flash?? did some impromptu henna at school today & it turned out pretty cute :) by @nupokes

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3 years ago

i love goatssss ~~
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very inspired, will be tattooing again soooon 🌟 taken in Odisha by @nupokes

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3 years ago