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‘Their Indian Eyes’ is a series of six sculptural pieces of silver currently being exhibited in ‘The Faraway Nearby’ exhibition until 13 July 2020.
“To love someone is to put yourself in their place, we say, which is to put yourself in their story, or figure out how to tell yourself their story. Which means that a place is a story and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller’s art, and then a way of travelling from here to there” Rebecca Solnit, The Faraway Nearby, P.3
I am inspired by wanderlust! the places I am privileged to visit and the people I meet. These silver tokens came after a recent journey. It was a big trip, an adventure with friends to India’s regions of Ladakh, Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. In August 2019, a month before we were due to set off, the President of India, Narendra Modi, abruptly stripped India’s Muslim majority region of Kashmir of it’s autonomy and locked down its communications with the rest of the world. The middle leg of our journey was severed, but this is not our story. It is the story of every man, woman and child, made silent, and their narratives of difference and sameness.
