"There’s something deeply unsettling about the way we are taught to see art, as if it floats above history, above labor, above the body. Growing up in India, I seldom heard the word 'art' spoken in my house. But I saw it everywhere. In the way my grandmother created products from waste. In the way she and her friends stitched stories into old sarees to make quilts, curtains, television covers. In the way my grandfather bound books. In the way my family made shoes, painted rickshaws and walls. In the way hands—brown, cracked, tired—carved, built, painted, wove. But those things were never called 'art.' They were chores. Culture. Utility. Survival. They were 'craft.' Not even design. And then I entered art spaces. Studied design. And everything flipped." Intrigued? Keep reading! You can find Siddhesh Gautam's essay "The Dangerous Binary of Art and Craft" in Spiral, the Rubin's multimedia publication, via the 🔗 in bio. Siddhesh Gautam is a Delhi-based, multidiscipline, mixed-media a...