!["☻☻, or Kamal and Daldeep," 2019. Woolen Mill Gallery.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9020eb037d455c29ffbe9216bf3ab47e4fd1b1cced308a30859b84ec64bda225/orKamalandDaldeep_JRandhawa_2019.jpg)
!["☻☻, or Kamal and Daldeep," detail. Woolen Mill Gallery. 2019.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7bb06c19032bdb00c812dea92dfbdbbc15bb4b11aaaaf679c8e005428e330f14/IMG_20190725_221300.jpg)
!["☻☻, or Kamal and Daldeep," detail. Woolen Mill Gallery. 2019.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/46495a56a4f26000b3d01b2f1bb2f0409697129f1dd20233aa7a866124c785ab/orKamalandDaldeep_detail_JRandhawa_2019.jpg)
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During my artist’s residency at the Wormfarm Institute (Reedsburg, Wisconsin) in summer 2019, I was meant to be writing, but my computer stopped working. In the days (then weeks) before I could catch a three-hour ride into the city to the nearest electronics repair shop, I constructed an altar and tapestry, reinscribing/reiterating a series of photographs of my grandmother Jaswant when she was a young mother, recently immigrated to Mombasa, Kenya. In the photographs, her nervous hands became a punctum, a sudden bend in the universe of our intertwined histories. Through isolating, tracing, enlarging the scale, iterating in charcoal, ink, paper, cotton, threads, and eventually writing, a body of work began to form. I consier the altar and tapestry installed at the Woolen Mill Gallery (Reedsburg, Wisconsin) as branches of a larger project in performance and memoir. Another element of this project, what I was meant to be writing, is an in-process book-length lyric essay, started in 2017. Excerpts of this lyric essay appear in O BOD and rivulet.
The tapestry and altar were presented at the Woolen Mill Gallery, alongside work by artists Jagdeep Raina, Alexander Hanson, and Tory Tepp.
Gallery wall text below:
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![(From left) Jhani Randhawa's altar and Tory Tepp inspecting his Earthtones instruments installed in Woolen Mill Gallery. Reedsburg, Wisconsin, 2019.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03be28712f519f767f64211ec8727456f4988143eff790447d7044da0901cf07/IMG_20190726_162459.jpg)
![(From left) Alex Hanson, Tory Tepp, and Jhani Randhawa as "The Earthtones" before Woolen Mill Gallery performance. Reedsburg, Wisconsin, 2019.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e02849eb66c90471aab8ff84041b28a261f130ec7aa92213c2c13c04ac56686e/IMG_20190716_121743.jpg)
![(From left) Jhani Randhawa's altar, Tory Tepp's Earthtones instruments, Alex Hanson's flag installed in Woolen Mill Gallery. Reedsburg, Wisconsin, 2019.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95ea5833d038aa126e97309facde82b537af01823e214c6475ef370139594a3a/IMG_20190726_151711.jpg)
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