WATER
The natural realm of the makara—and the beginning of every living chain on the island.
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THE GUARDIAN
CREATURE OF WATER.
KEEPER OF ORIGIN.
AN OLD FORM / A NEW PROMISE
MAKARA WAS NEVER
ONE CREATURE.
Across South Asian art, the makara is a composite aquatic creature—described through parts of fish, crocodile, elephant and other beings held in one impossible form.
It appears in architecture, ornament and water forms as a protective presence. For us, it becomes a reminder: guard the water, the nature and the origin.
THE MET COLLECTION ↗
MANY AS ONE
Many creatures in one form. Farmer, maker, animal and home in one chain.
PROTECTION
The mark is not there to decorate an object. It makes the object answerable to its origin.