On a quiet Thursday morning after sharing tea with eL Seed and Asad Ali Jafri – who are visiting Houston as part of the Mitchell Center’s Intersections project at Doshi...
Read more05 Dec, 2014
13 Apr, 2014
a panel discussion for the mitchell center…
13 Apr, 2014
As part of my residency with the Mitchell Center for the Arts, I participate at CounterCurrents 2014 in a panel discussion, Challenging the Boundaries: Collaboration Among the Arts, and...
Read more16 Oct, 2013
eid in houston…
16 Oct, 2013
As part of the Eid celebration, Minal decides to learn the skill of applying mehndi / henna on her own feet and her friend’s palm.
Read more07 Aug, 2013
creating art…
07 Aug, 2013
Minal creating art with found objects. Above: a toothpick to create a design in her ice-cream; below: flowers in a dried leaf.
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after the rain…
05 Aug, 2013
Seashells laid out on sand by Minal We take a spontaneous trip to the beach. Rainwater clogs the streets, but once we reach Hawksbay, we are rewarded by an...
Read more28 Jul, 2013
music in karachi…
28 Jul, 2013
I land in Karachi by late afternoon and by night, our family is at a dinner at Khalid and Lali Mahmood’s house. Lali, a photographer, wants to learn more...
Read more19 Jul, 2013
going north…
19 Jul, 2013
This July is a month of movement for me. Today, I catch an early morning Green Line bus to Sylhet, Bangladesh’s fourth largest city in the northern region, close...
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