Perceptions

Rina Bannerjee.  She Is My Country, 2009.

Texas long horn steer skull, cowrie shells, steel planters, Hindu ceremony thread, antique mannequin, globes, wire, kitchen towel rack, glass beads, brass bells, Chinese umbrella, Japanese mosquito net, bone beads, copper trim, African necklaces, Chinese lantern, 22 carat gold powder. / Musee Goya, Castres, France, 2012

” … She’s my country…her breath exploded of putrid death and folly. Her tresses snagged the most prickly greed lured cultures to wet their beds severed family and prayed on hope….she is at war …”

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