Savari – an illustrated journey through Iran & India

Savari is a collection of drawings of Bianca Tschaikners sketchbook from five months of Iran & India. It’s a travelogue full of drawings, sketches, poems and notes, capturing her day-to-day adventures in a strange world, telling stories about operated noses in Iran, baking cakes in Shiraz, harvesting pomegranates in Iranian villages, encounters with strangers in fairytale-like mosques, and drinking whiskey in the Indian jungle.
Half imaginary, half real, it’s a many-layered documentation of a personal story in the form of a journey. At the same time, it tells about the political circumstances and the cultural environment in which the journey takes place, always oscillating between reality and fantasy.