thik cha
Gaurab Thakali
‘Thik Cha’ is a collaborative photo and illustration project by Skate Nepal co-founders Gaurab Thakali and Tom Delion. The book was released in January 2016 with an accompanying exhibition at The Embassy Tea Gallery, London.
‘Thik Cha’ is an informal greeting used in Nepal; it is a question and response, the English equivalent of ‘OK’. For artists Tom Caron-Delion and Gaurab Thakali it perfectly communicates the relaxed yet purposeful way of life that they experienced on a joint journey-based project in Nepal in late 2015. This project explores what happens when an insider and an outsider travel together with the aim of documenting everyday life, making contact with local skateboarders and in so doing, recording the aftermath of the April earthquake.
‘Thik Cha’ is an informal greeting used in Nepal; it is a question and response, the English equivalent of ‘OK’. For artists Tom Caron-Delion and Gaurab Thakali it perfectly communicates the relaxed yet purposeful way of life that they experienced on a joint journey-based project in Nepal in late 2015. This project explores what happens when an insider and an outsider travel together with the aim of documenting everyday life, making contact with local skateboarders and in so doing, recording the aftermath of the April earthquake.
Biography
London-based Gaurab Thakali is a skateboarder and very renowned illustrator originally from Kathmandu, Nepal. He is also one of three co-founders of Skate Nepal. Gaurab’s work has featured among a plethora of different mediums ranging from very aesthetically distinguishing skateboard graphics for British based skateboard company Skateboard Café, album covers for afro-beat, jazz collective KOKOROKO and Orquesta Okakan paintings for The New Yorker.
