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Self Portrait from parallel
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Medium: Digital Collage, Print on Archival Paper
Creation Date: 3rd September 2020
Medium: Digital Collage, Print on Archival Paper
Creation Date: 3rd September 2020
An accurate description of an alternate reality, had I combed my hair as many times as my grandmothers expected me to.
**On a walk along my neighborhood, I found a cacti escaping from the ground, reaching just above the 1st floor of a house, never had I seen a cacti as tall as this one. I reached out to the camera of my phone.**
I have curly hair, and when I was young, the ladies of the house took it as a responsibility to tame my sacred wilding. If mummy were going out of town, only a few brave women offered to comb my mane in the morning for school. Now that I am responsible for my wilding, I hardly ever comb my hair, partly in rebellion and partly because of the fear of losing my curls. My grandmothers still remind me that open curly hair invite witches to live inside you (in local Hindi dialect - chudail ka ghar). So as a result, many chudails started living in me and one of them in fact pieced this collage together, a showcase of an alternate reality.
**On a walk along my neighborhood, I found a cacti escaping from the ground, reaching just above the 1st floor of a house, never had I seen a cacti as tall as this one. I reached out to the camera of my phone.**
I have curly hair, and when I was young, the ladies of the house took it as a responsibility to tame my sacred wilding. If mummy were going out of town, only a few brave women offered to comb my mane in the morning for school. Now that I am responsible for my wilding, I hardly ever comb my hair, partly in rebellion and partly because of the fear of losing my curls. My grandmothers still remind me that open curly hair invite witches to live inside you (in local Hindi dialect - chudail ka ghar). So as a result, many chudails started living in me and one of them in fact pieced this collage together, a showcase of an alternate reality.