Gaia Grid is a long term art project by Harsh Valechha.

It encompasses the physical and digital world.

In the physical world, it manifests as Gaia Grid, the food forest, that Harsh and 800 volunteers built over a span of 9 years. First, it was just him and a barren land, and he started by digging pits. Funds were non-existent, so he crowdsourced and bought tools, built a home, and hosted others who helped him build this forest. It is a piece of land he is learning from. His role was mostly patience, listening, trying to hear what the place wanted to become. This kind of art makes itself. His job was just to be present for it; to offer his hands, his presence, and his faith. It exists on the map, on a small remote hilltop in Kerala, India.

In the digital world, Gaia Grid manifests as math, code, poetry, music and photography. Harsh's personal philosophy is reflected in his code. For example, when you visit this website for the first time, you're greeted with a simple screen with a few dots. You, the controller of the hand, play god. When you move your hand, it attracts other dots to each other and to you. Gravity, when coded correctly can be such a unifier. Soon, soul families emerge, where dots revolve around each other, pulled by their own gravity and repelled by their own field. When they hit the extremities of the page, they create music, in harmonic frequencies. Writing the math for this was both painstaking and enlightening.

In the next page, they rearrange to form a cohesive sphere, Gaia's Grid. Here, you get to select one of the 7 orbs, and learn more about Gaia Grid. There is a selection of YouTube videos, conversations, stories, art, music, and education to choose from. You must know, the entire website has been built from the ground up, a single line of code at a time.

You are welcome to visit the land in the physical world, but know that If you come, you won't be coming to see what Harsh made. You'll be coming to see what's 'being' made. And you can add to it. With a planted tree, with a quiet hour, with your attention.

At the land, you can:
— Join a planting day in person and play with mud.
— Help keep this going, with tools and resources so more hands can join.
— Name a tree for someone. Let it grow for them.
— Help this quiet idea of co-creation reach other places, other people.

The land is remembering itself. We are just here, paying attention, remembering.

Maybe you're here because you are remembering too.

If you're looking for:
1. Someone to quietly help a piece of land find its way back.
2. Someone to teach you design, through code and through conservation.
3. Someone who can be a mentor and mirror.
4. A place to be still, in a world that isn't.
5. A partner in the slow, humble work of letting things heal.

Then you've found a kindred space. Let's talk.

This is not a co-incidence, the universe brought you here.

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