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Excerpt from the booklet:

Glittering Dresses

Women carry wedding offerings in the map-work in Glittering Dresses: an embroidered Bagh, a wedding urn, “something in a clenched hand.” The celebrants leave nothing behind, carrying what the background conveys with them; longing, joy, relentless memories, and a sense of watching from afar as the places left behind change as well.

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Creatures of the Cold

In the drawing on paper, Creatures of the cold, a kind of funeral pyre/totem rises over the wheat and sugarcane fields. In a conversation with me about this piece, Raina said he was looking at stone carvings and rocks in Kashmir, monuments that are standing, or decaying. Observing these structures, he was thinking of scientific research, and how climate change in the Himalayas changes the mountain eco-system. He was also “looking at the history of mythology in fold-stories and the history of ecology in Kashmir, the relationship between mythology and ecology, storytelling, and how folk-stories were used to think about the land in intimate ways…”

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