I learn via email that I’ve been awarded an artist innovations grant through the Mid-America Arts Alliance for my What is Home? project, one that I started during my...
Read more08 Jul, 2014
30 Jun, 2014
dubai airport again…
30 Jun, 2014
Dubai airport continues to expand, getting increasingly glamorous with little credit given to men from different parts of Asia who provide hard labor yet live outside the city’s air-conditioned...
Read more17 Dec, 2013
bangladesh’s mother language day…
17 Dec, 2013
Rickshaws alongside a mural by students of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka, inscribed with lyrics by Abdul Gaffar, and dedicated to Mother Language Day. My piece,...
Read more14 Dec, 2013
finding comfort…
14 Dec, 2013
The temperature is freezing cold as I wander through the roundabout near George Washington University in search of Thai food. As I walk on Pennsylvania Avenue, I walk past...
Read more21 Aug, 2013
12 Aug, 2013
istanbul airport – again…
12 Aug, 2013
Minal and I experience a five-time security checking in Istanbul airport before we board our flight to Houston. Nonetheless, we are grateful that Turkish Airlines is now flying directly...
Read more27 Jul, 2013
last evening in Dhaka…
27 Jul, 2013
People viewing street photo exhibition at Shahbag Square. I end my time in Dhaka with a trip to Shahbag Square, where historical photos of the 1971 Liberation War are...
Read more25 Jul, 2013
more visits…
25 Jul, 2013
Two sculptures at the Institute of Fine Art in Dhaka The Institute of Fine Art at the University of Dhaka is an open space where students sketch, paint and...
Read more25 Jul, 2013
stories of loss…
25 Jul, 2013
Khushi arranges for us to visit Savar, the site where the Rana Plaza collapsed back in April. Today marks three months of mourning for more than 1100 lives that...
Read more23 Jul, 2013
spontaneous party…
23 Jul, 2013
In the evening, I offer a presentation about VBB to the Britto Arts Trust, and they inform me about their artists collective. After the formal conversation and collection of...
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