Instagram story viewer> @symmmrin> Posts

symrin chawla

@symmmrin

2.4K

followers

1128

following

art direction & graphic design
ganga blues on @nts_radio
always, @studio___ru

POSTS STORIES REELS TAGGED

Download All

showwwwtimee ✩ The Ganga Blues hour of radio is TONIGHT at 7PM PST on @nts_radio ✩ enchanted parrots, Maya’s serenade in Kama Sutra, any excuse to play Cornershop, Cowboy Junkies, a lil sārangī, a lil plucky bass. you know! by @symmmrin

150

3

2 years ago

speechless at the moment.

“Very reverentially, I entered a most holy place. Shortly thereafter, the Lord appeared. I immediately offered pranams at his Divine Feet. Afterwards, the Lord said: ‘Turja, let us sing a new song.’”
— Alice Coltrane, August 18, 1986

thank you @erinzulie for the blessing and the trust. darling LA friends, see you at @hammer_museum next weekend for the opening of Alice Coltane, Monument Eternal.

ॐ by @symmmrin

440

54

2 years ago

Wishing Well on view at This Is A Pipe, a show curated by Axel Wilhite

open Nov 11 - Nov 30, by appointment
The Old Arcade, 936 Mei Ling Way, LA 90012

making personal brass pipes for friends by request ✨💛 by @symmmrin

142

14

8 years ago

”Sometimes I disappear and the intelligence of a strawberry sees the world through my eyes.” - me

“My lens is always seeking, perhaps being summoned by flowers, because they aﬃrm intuitive guidance towards soul repair. Flowers are my ofrendas to this thought.” - jaz

ꫂ❁

Flor de Jamaica by Jazmin Garcia SOMESUCH EDITIONS, 2025
18.5 x 25.5 cm
ISBN: 9781999789299

From the heart and mind of @buffalotearz
Design by @studio___ru
Print Production by @guesteditions
Edited by @suzeolbrich @somesuchandco
Distributed by @public_knowledge_books by @symmmrin

60

2

a month ago

So proud to share this book, which makes my whole heart swell.

Weather and the Whale is the result of a 2-year working group of scientists, artists and scholars investigating the legacies of whaling, colonialism and climate change on marine mammals. Humpback whales, sea lions, sea otters. Our family, if you’re from California.

When I met Rachel Nelson and Alexandra Moore, they opened a tiny sparkling purple box containing a fossilized whale ear the size of my fist. That’s what’s on the cover. A 3-5 million years old whale ear!!

I grew up under the Santa Cruz mountains, and as a designer, don’t always have a way to participate in the kinds of environmental research and restoration I believe in. So it fulfilled me deeply to me to create this book with the UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Friedlaender Bio-Telemetry and Behavioral Ecology Lab. Such an incredible creative process held in deep integrity with the love, respect, sorrow and hope we all share for this planet and its majestic creatures.

Weather and the Whale
University of Minnesota Press, 2026
8 x 10 in
ISBN: 9781517921712

Edited by @ucscias
Color Separations by @echelon_color
Printed by @ofset.yapimevi  Design by @studio___ru by @symmmrin

148

31

a month ago

Petals from Flor de Jamaica, a limited edition photo book made with my dear friend and filmmaker Jazmin Garcia. Master of the mystical and the grave.

Slipped between the seams is a script that tells the story of Doña Berta. A solitary woman living by the sea, speaking to her ghosts on the radio. “She learned to occupy her eternity bound to flor de jamaica…”

Flor de Jamaica by Jazmin Garcia SOMESUCH EDITIONS, 2026
18.5 x 25.5 cm
ISBN: 9781999789299

From the heart and mind of @buffalotearz
Design by @studio___ru
Print Production by @guesteditions
Edited by @suzeolbrich @somesuchandco
Distributed by @public_knowledge_books by @symmmrin

117

12

2 months ago

Have loved this painting for many years and finally used it for last month’s Ganga Blues. ‘Mary Magdalene Washing the Feet of Jesus’ by the Indian artist Frank Wesley. It depicts a moment in scripture that transformed how I understand the human responsibility to sorrow. Made this show during a season of brittle faith. Sandcastles tumbling down without the satisfaction of a passionate surrender. But “grief is fertile soil” (as I’ve been told), and I have always found myself in a theology of the fragile.

The show begins with a rendition of Hildegard von Bingen’s ‘Caritas abundant’ or ‘Love Abounds’ by the St. Stanislav’s Girl’s Choir. Heard while nesting in England after leaving divinity school.

Cross is by the wonderful Subodh Kerkar, on display at the Museum of Goa after having been submerged in the ocean for 4 years. It surfaced covered in oysters. Mediums listed are “Pearls and Metal”.

Currently reading The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum (1941-43) if anyone would like to have a book club.

Full show is archived on NTS.live. Enjoy the music xo by @symmmrin

132

7

a year ago

spitting yarrow into each others cuts just to say I love you by @symmmrin

144

7

2 years ago

✩ radio show tonite ✩ by @symmmrin

85

2

a year ago

If longing were crystallized as an hour of radio, maybe it would sound like this. Odissi steps; cows taken to pasture; Reynaldo Hahn; Shirley Kwan; Abdullah Ibrahim. Thank you @symmmrin for letting me share your airwaves.

Ganga Blues on NTS with meeeee @serene.wd!
10 June, 8pm PST / 11 June, 5am CET by @symmmrin

94

3

4 months ago

BLACK SPIRIT X GANGA BLUES
ON NTS RADIO
FEBRUARY 18 8PM PST

made with love, from India by @a_rucker ♥

This hour of music moves through gospel, soul, and a spectrum of Black artists, tracing music as a spiritual architecture beyond the individual. Blending sacred textures with ambient and rhythmic passages, we explore sound as vibration, a living force shaped by Black Spirit.

Photo by @vivekvad by @symmmrin

316

21

8 months ago

DIGGING IN INDIA 🤝🏽GANGA BLUES

Nishant sent me The Antlers and our king, Jasdeep (née Jeff) Buckley, so naturally we’re in an indie mood. Playing all the darlings of the day ~ @quietlight_forever, @yullola, @taranehsworld, @bluemena_. Plus new experimental devotional from @digginginindia x @songsforatiredcity and of course the beautiful ‘Amen’ from my love @silvercordsounds.

༺ enjoyyyyyyyy ༻

8 PM PST OCT 29 ON NTS RADIO by @symmmrin

85

10

a year ago