This winter, just after Christmas, I found out that my friend Rashid Dongola had passed away. I met Rashid in Kashmir when I was working on my Enemies Project in that mythical seeming land that lies on the border of India and Pakistan. Rashid was one of the many...
Hi everyone, This post is the start of a two month long sharing of where the ENEMIES Project came from and my process of creating works out of the material I’ve gathered in ENEMIES. I’ll end this set of posts with a showing of my most current works....
How to meet warlords and militants, or… 20 steps to avoid if you want a simple life I gave this talk last week for Pecha Kucha, Austin. I was asked to talk about my ENEMIES Project, and as I was writing the talk I kept finding more threads from my past...
Ladakh… Wild taxi rides snaking over passes through snow-capped mountains to monasteries perched on the edges of cliffs. Young monks playing with matchbox cars and trading candy during prayers – later one runs up to our table during dinner, grabs the tea bag out of my...
So, here we are in Kashmir. I needed to wait and feel things out before blogging about this very complicated conflict. The first thing I will say is that the situation here is much more than we hear about in the west. This is not a simple two-sided conflict. There are...
