The Sumati Series

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Portrait plates for a phone, landscape plates for a desktop. Every one downloads at the size printed on its card — the original file, not a resized copy. Free for personal use under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Open one to view it full size, then save it the way you normally save an image.

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Sumati standing against a ruined skyline, cape-like fabric caught in the wind — Superhero

Sumati as the world insists on seeing her, and as she never asked to be seen.

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A figure seated on a Delhi rooftop above floodwater at dusk — On Rooftop

The vantage point from which most of the Resistance's listening was done.

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A cloaked figure moving through submerged, crumbling architecture — Cloaked in Ruins

Movement through the drowned city, hooded against heat and cameras alike.

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The Firebird emblem glowing above a dark ruined cityscape — Firebird

The emblem that appears only when it is needed.

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A glowing salt lamp on a rooftop parapet at dusk, solar panels and a monorail below, towers and constellations beyond — Salt Lamp at Dusk

One lamp on a parapet, the city coming on behind it, and a sky the old maps still fit. This is the whole book in one frame: something small and warm kept working while something enormous carried on.

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A figure standing on a Delhi rooftop at night beside a glowing crystal lamp, the Milky Way overhead and a Firebird sigil painted on the parapet — Night Watch

A figure on a roof with a lamp and no intention of intervening. Most of the Resistance's work looked exactly like this — someone awake, keeping track.

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The Firebird emblem in orange against deep teal cloud, gold linework at the corners — Firebird Rising

The emblem as the Resistance actually used it — painted fast, on a wall, in the dark, by someone who then left.

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The Firebird emblem in orange on a teal watercolour ground, faint gold constellation lines and circles around it — Firebird, Charted

The same bird, drawn the way the archivists drew it — surrounded by the measuring marks of people trying to work out what it meant.

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A cluster of translucent pink crystal cubes suspended in orbital linework on a pale ground — Hysteron Lattice

Halite cut to tolerance and braced into a lattice, with the fields it holds drawn in. Not pretty pink rock — the working part.

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A single glowing lattice of pink crystal cubes ringed by concentric linework, pale hills below — Halite

One lattice, lit, above hills that no longer have the weather they were named for.

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A public plaza with water dispensers, solar shade canopies, people drinking tea and a man repairing a machine, a rebuilt city behind — Water-Sharing Station

A tap, a shade canopy, a repair bench and somewhere to sit. Five years after the collapse this is what resilience turned out to look like, and it survived three drought seasons.

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A riverfront promenade at sunrise with planted beds, solar canopies, a bicycle repair bench and a city skyline across the water — The Riverfront

The water came back, and so did the people, and nobody flew in to make it happen.

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