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SHREYAS

Jack of all trades.

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Sanmon — before the bell
01 / About the makerBetween the signals

Useful things,
human first.

I’m Shreyas, an Information Science Engineering student, passionate about building helpful, human-centered web experiences. Outside of tech, I enjoy basketball, photo and video editing, and photography. I’m building projects aimed at making useful tools for real people, and sharing my journey through an interactive portfolio of my work and interests.

01 — The Sanmon

Charred cypress, worn stone, one gate left open.

Kage begins where the city stops: a mountain gate of cedar burned black, standing in its own weather. The soot is not decoration. It is how a board is taught to survive a hundred rainy seasons, and the first thing this place asks you to understand.

Climb the worn steps and the worship hall lifts out of the mist, its paper screens lit from inside like a lantern the size of a house. Above the eaves a vermilion moon holds its place, patient, half hidden. Nothing here is in a hurry. Neither, for the next ninety minutes, are you.

Cross the threshold
05Chapters
92Minutes
1611Hall raised
∞Stillness
02 / The signal field01 / 04

A multidisciplinary path

Many ways
to make.

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Video Editing

Photo and video editing, creative cuts, and visual stories will be added here.

03 / Contact fieldContact SHREYAS

Building
for people.

Find me across the places where I share work, projects, edits, and ideas.

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02 — Still Gardens
Approach
The long climb01 / 03
Lanterns
Lantern court02 / 03
Moonwater
The wet court03 / 03
03 — Sacred Craft

Five chapters. Ninety minutes. One quiet mind.

Each chapter is a walk, not a lecture. You arrive at the gate, climb the steps, sit with the lantern, and leave with one thing worth keeping.

01

The Hidden Gate

Why a gate is a sentence, and what you agree to when you walk under one.

14 min
02

Borrowed Scenery

Shakkei: composing with a mountain you will never own.

18 min
03

Charred Cypress

Yakisugi: burning a board black so the weather will let it live.

21 min
04

Lantern Light

How a single ember decides the scale of everything around it.

17 min
05

The Vermilion Moon

Why the moon burns red over the valley, and what the garden does with it.

22 min
Chapter 04 — Afterlight

Afterlight

The gate does not close behind you. Take the walk whenever the noise gets loud — it is always the same path, and never the same light.

Begin the walk