For nearly 25 years, I have been taking pictures of the archives in India that I have worked in, documenting their manuscript collections, architectural designs, and some of the people who manage and maintain them. Over the past decade, I have been exhibiting and publishing selections of this photography as an art project called Manuscriptistan. Spotlighting the textures, lighting, colors, and compositions of archival spaces and their collections as well as archival cultures, the project has carried both aesthetic and ethnographic meaning to me since its inception. Each of the images crystallizes a particular place and time in my research environments, and it is my hope that they reveal information and spark curiosity about the processes, materials, and communities that have been integral to the development of my scholarship and teaching. In this talk, I will share images from Manuscriptistan and explain the project’s origins, development, and possible futures. I will reflect on how artmaking and creative practices in general have been useful means for me to translate complex ideas and sometimes challenging questions into experiences that can be seen and perhaps also felt. To conclude, I will gesture to the ways that my artistic explorations of India’s manuscript archives have helped me imagine and think about broader and cross-cultural issues concerning the collection, curation, and preservation of knowledge.