Prayer Beads
It's the halo that protects and the circle that enables.
Making visible the "aesthetic envelope" that expresses and shapes feeling, belief, and moral conviction.
It's the halo that protects and the circle that enables.
It increases my creative power in joyful ways.
Now featuring a removable Baby Jesus…
Unlike other tools, it is not connected with my everyday routine.
Unlike the rest of the Brahminical society, the doll did not seem to have boundaries of participation.
I never told anybody about my quest, I never stopped looking.
She is the embodiment of the matriarchal spirit.
This armor is entirely literal.
A symbol of how we map out the direction and speed of the winds of change.
I screamed and plunged my arm in to grab it.
The one pretty thing that reminded me of oily, deep-fried food.
Symbols for the first thing that let me pretend to be who I wanted to be.
There’s something more fantastical than ironic about them.
It felt like the kind of physical thing you bring back from Narnia.