<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[MZL]]></title><description><![CDATA[MZL is an interdisciplinary artistic practice & studio founded by Shreya Tanisha.]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/abnormalpulse</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 22 May 2026 21:07:08 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Art &#38; Love In The Time of War]]></title><description><![CDATA[If Art is Love and Love is Art and Art and Love are Assertions of the Self then it follows that War is the inevitable destruction. Destruction breeds creation. Does it? Or does it create erasure and a rush to resolve: the cogs of the humanitarian machine begin to turn and people resume their lives, look away, stay neutral or get emotional. The students protest and occupy buildings. The Man does what he does and says he will do what he can. And the wheels keep turning even whilst all...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/art-love-in-the-time-of-war</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ceb8d8719295076f2ccc9a</guid><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:43:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Just To Be Absolutely Clear]]></title><description><![CDATA[TL;DR: Just to be absolutely clear: the views expressed here and elsewhere and in my art are my own. I am the artist and founder: Shreya Tanisha.  No  one, especially not any member of my family, is responsible or liable for any of them. We are not a puppet troupe. We answer to no puppet masters, and I am no one's puppet. The views expressed by this company and it's founder, Shreya Tanisha (me!), are entirely my own and no one, I repeat, no one, and especially not my family, are liable for...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/just-to-be-absolutely-clear</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69ac4a0fd66894c6d6f666ac</guid><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:22:11 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Institutional Imprisonment Part IIII]]></title><description><![CDATA[I thought I’d do these consecutively and then I remembered this is my artistic public journal so I said: oh well. The likelihood that more than 50 people will read this is pretty low still, so bearing that in mind, I am keeping the content personal and not performative and I actually don’t want that to change. In fact I think that’s why I started doing this in the first place. Anyway, so a quick recap of the CORE Theory: Humans are inherently fragile and cannot fully integrate emotional,...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/institutional-imprisonment-part-iiii-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69934acbcf429c4fcb4c8715</guid><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:51:19 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Glamorization of Mental Health]]></title><description><![CDATA[I use American and English spelling interchangeably. My accent changes sometimes according to who I am speaking to. I pronounce some words strangely at times and it feels unforgivable only because I’m not White. Benedict Cumberbatch pronounced penguin wrong a thousand times in some documentary and it was just funny. If I do it my English competence might be questioned despite having one of the most elite International &#38; English educational backgrounds in the world. Now don’t get me wrong. I’m...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/the-glamorization-of-mental-health</link><guid isPermaLink="false">698e2b5451a6a74c3cb2cdd4</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:34:51 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Institutional Imprisonment Part III]]></title><description><![CDATA[Let’s get right to the heart of it and I’m going to keep this part very fragmented because doctoral/PhD work can get quite dense and my aim is to make this accessible. After all, novel insight is only useful if people have access to it. But first, let me briefly address the question that’s on a lot of people’s minds: why would an aspiring thespian or interdisciplinary artist suddenly stop all of it and enter academia?  It’s a valid question. And it’s hard for me to answer because it’s...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/institutional-imprisonment-part-iiii</link><guid isPermaLink="false">696a986cd896cb8b6939b022</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:58:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Institutional Imprisonment Part II]]></title><description><![CDATA[There comes a time in life when you begin to value precision and simplicity above all else. This does not mean that other things are of less importance. It simply means that something within you — the thing that has managed multiple realities, desires, circumstances at once — can begin to prioritize. And that is difficult to articulate. Am I losing you? Well, let’s make it clear. I’ll use a personal example first and then one that contrasts yet complements that example. You know by now that...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/institutional-imprisonment-part-ii</link><guid isPermaLink="false">696542aee6e689b3de4bed55</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:51:30 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Institutional Imprisonment Part I]]></title><description><![CDATA[At first I wrote institutional suffering, but then I opted for the alliteration instead. Imprisonment. Because that’s actually what it is. Suffering is just one of the many effects, which is why I’m going to write this piece in parts. This is Part I.  Maybe it’s a personality thing, or a genetic thing, like being Bipolar, but I take independence to the absurd level of devaluing interdependence, which is incredibly stupid. I depend on people all the time — we all do. It’s just that the...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/institutional-imprisonment-part-i</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6960ab83bb643392cff9ec8d</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2026 07:17:26 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Veblen Goods]]></title><description><![CDATA[I lost track of time. If you’ve read everything before this then you know why. If you haven’t then I'm thrilled to say that I honestly, finally, can’t be bothered to explain, so tough. Figure it out. I lost three watches. I have always maintained that I have never been robbed because I really haven't. I believe you can only say you’ve been robbed if you can prove it. That’s the rule for everything else in life, so, even if I suspect I’ve been robbed - I can’t tell you for certain. There is no...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/veblen-goods</link><guid isPermaLink="false">69471b203b8b6eb4129c1ec5</guid><pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:55:19 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Began Working When I Was Five]]></title><description><![CDATA[Too dramatic? Maybe. Then again, at this point, are you surprised? Truth is I’m not being dramatic at all - I’m not exaggerating, and this is not hyperbole. I definitely do not mean child labour or anything illegal. I moved from India where I was born when I was five years old because my father got hired by a huge multinational corporation and so, being a minor, naturally I moved with him. As did my mother, and my sister. I’m not going to name this company, you can rummage through this...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/i-began-working-when-i-was-five</link><guid isPermaLink="false">693d24974992c1bfd5da1d77</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Dec 2025 08:32:28 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Silver Spoon]]></title><description><![CDATA[Godparents gave a silver spoon to a baby at baptism in 16th - 18th century aristocratic Europe. Gold was considered too ostentatious for...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/silver-spoon</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68d933d5cb09911e236e07c1</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2025 13:10:47 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kaleidoscope of Infinite Hope]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you’ve seen Home Alone you might remember the scene where the Wet Bandits are robbing a house, and just as a message on the voice...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/kaleidoscope-of-infinite-hope</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68d11e61a13a7e0122445469</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2025 10:01:21 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some Of These Are Too Long]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the interest of creating more content - though, come on, quality over quantity is rule number one of our manifesto - I just wanted to interject and write that I really dislike (I wanted to use the word hate but don't people always say that's too strong) how long some of the pieces are in this journal. I just am tired. Of how long the writing is. It has to be, and maybe because I'm writing it I don't want to read it and maybe because I'm going through something that has felt like the same...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/i-dislike-how-long-some-of-these-are</link><guid isPermaLink="false">68a0c0e0074abfca643db73b</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:38:06 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't You Use A Knife To Cut A Cake?]]></title><description><![CDATA[What do you use to cut a cake? I use a knife. I’ll eat it with a fork and sometimes maybe a spoon, sure, but I never attempt to cut a big or average sized cake into slices or squares using anything other than a knife. Why would I? It would spoil the cake. You’d be left with dollops, broken bits, something that resembles a cake, which was sadly smushed or dropped or worst of all - deliberately destroyed. Why do that to a cake? Why not just use a knife? Clean cuts. Straight lines, triangles,...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/don-t-you-use-a-knife-to-cut-a-cake</link><guid isPermaLink="false">689f2f8c81e6ee2fae508905</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2025 13:01:02 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hades, Hospitals &#38; Hospitality]]></title><description><![CDATA[The best way to organise your thoughts I’ve found is to quite simply never give up. Forget, to the best of your abilities, what people...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/hades-hospitals-hospitality</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6729882d6308391e769d09bd</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 02:53:39 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Love Letter To My Madness]]></title><description><![CDATA[People like to act. I like to act. Someone told me that you’re Bipolar because you’re an actor, an artist, and that makes sense. But I...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/a-love-letter-to-madness</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6706f99446cf8b8711d1321c</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 21:46:07 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alba Gu Bráth! I Love You]]></title><description><![CDATA[Don’t worry, this is going to be a shorter piece of writing but an incredibly passionate one because it is, after all, a declaration of...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/alba-gu-br%C3%A1th-i-love-you</link><guid isPermaLink="false">669e7e675f6d8150fa851575</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 15:44:51 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Try &#38; Break Me A Little Bit More]]></title><description><![CDATA[There comes a point in time when all the rage starts becoming poisonous. Like venom. It has seeped into your bloodstream and it’s in the air you breathe.   An intelligent person would know how to get it out, get rid of it – right? So, you can imagine how the bite gets deeper when the one person you have managed to trust throughout this entire ordeal finally says, “You need to get your shit together.” It wasn’t left as brutally as that. The conversation was about victimhood and agency. To keep...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/go-ahead-try-break-me-a-little-bit-more</link><guid isPermaLink="false">669ad9b4fbd03a2d5d96bb61</guid><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jul 2024 21:25:11 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oh-Oh, Here She Comes!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Watch out boy, I’ll chew you up. Only joking. I'm not a Maneater. At least, I don’t think I am. The male attention I've received and have...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/oh-oh-here-she-comes</link><guid isPermaLink="false">66898a5c6557a3304af4baab</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jul 2024 18:18:25 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Perfect Day]]></title><description><![CDATA[Twenty-two days to go. I have that much time before I am once again back in Edinburgh, a city I love very much, and where I hope to again...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/a-perfect-day</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65ca8331ae293cafdf50f02e</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 12:33:48 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Synesthesia! Give Me What I Want]]></title><description><![CDATA[I spoke to my sister for the first time in, I don't know, what almost feels like a year. We're very different people. She would read this and say "why am I in some weird public journal called Abnormal Pulse, what is wrong with you, you're so desensitised to abnormality," etc. I wouldn't say we're friends, and I wouldn't say we've exactly been emotional support systems for one another, but I will say we're sisters, which means she's been there when it mattered the most. Most of the time. She...]]></description><link>https://www.mzl7spaceshop.com/post/synesthesia-just-give-me-what-i-want</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6582c6c99f7c95e347a5b1b5</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2023 17:19:50 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>Shreya Tanisha</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>