Shafira Vidyamaharani

Shafira Vidyamaharani’s intuitive path to design

By: Ashima Shukla, Staff Writer A graphic designer, photographer, videographer, painter, writer, and textile artist, Shafira Vidyamaharani’s practice resists definition — and that’s the point. Now a graduate student in SFU’s communication program, they are building a career that merges intuition with intellect, art with community, and personal memories with collective futures.  Even as a child, art was the language Vidyamaharani best understood. Their mother enrolled them in art competitions, and their father used drawing to explain complex ideas. “[Art] has always been in me, and passed down through me,” they told The Peak, smiling under the summer sun on…

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