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This visual essay is an artmaking-research-based inquiry that considers how we can mend our world by addressing the hybridity and malleability of notions like identity, home, materiality and future(s). This work explores how artists and art educators can contribute to the imagination and futurism(s) that valorize and repair our environment. It also acknowledges the role of the more-than-human world as collaborators in this world-making process. This inquiry is a form of artistic divination to interrogate the artist–researcher’s Indian American identity. Through photographs and found imagery from South India and the United States, such as saris, knitted artwork and scans of dried plant material, I envision future(s) through artmaking and research. Drawing on notions of pluriversality and decoloniality, this visual essay explores the world-making potentialities of this artmaking and research practice. Personal reflections through artmaking and writing promote environmentally aware practices of making, thinking and world-making, offering a vision of a mended world.