Introduction The graphic artist Mahesh Navani works predominantly with wood, usually the kind you might find lurking in skips or old scrap yards. Often seeing the benefits of working with existing textures, Mahesh considers the found random markings of these old items as information and his position as more of a curator than an artist. Conversations This information is key to his approach as he feels he ´curates´ the worn in evidence of these surfaces and foresees the relationship between various textures as conversations between materials. He listens closely to what they might say with a gentle sense of intervention…