Sheba Remy Kharbanda

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Five River: A Portrait of Partition

Installation - Five Rivers: A Portrait of Partition

Vilayati Tarti - Foreign Land Project

Oral History - Vilayati Tarti/Foreign Land Project

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Heart melt series
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Maya didi 😍
Maya has worked in my father’s cavernous house almost since she arrived in Himachal from her native Nepal. She is single mother to two young girls, her husband having disappeared on a trip home many years ago and now presumed dead. Maya is as fond of my mother as I am and, like my mother, giggles a lot and is as perpetually concerned about what I’m eating, or not eating. She is the saving grace to my father’s otherwise somber existence. We made beetroot greens and stir fried mushrooms together though she’s a little ambivalent of my love for apple cider vinegar. She pretends to get vexed when I clean our room and bathroom myself but I know she doesn’t mean it. She works two jobs and never sits still for long. I am not, however, allowed to wash the dishes. Not sure why...And I really am almost twice her size.
#whereintheworldamI #springtravels #himachal #himalayas #india2018 #goddessabode #thegroundbeneathmyfeet #interdependence

Market days. With a view.
#whereintheworldamI #springtravels #himachal #himalayas #india2018 #goddessabode #thegroundbeneathmyfeet #marketswithaview #hanumansabode #ordinary #extroadinary #ordinaryextroadinary #everydaylife

Working on 13 Moons whenever and wherever I can. My life (intentionally/ cosmically and otherwise) is not grounded in much routine and I’m an odd-bird artist without a prescribed “practice.” I’m learning to make that work for me, to allow that to be what is expressed. It was fun scouting locations for this video series and it’s been an engaging experience plumbing my depths this way.
#videoart #praxis #artpraxis #videoartonthego #makingartwhereverican #listeningtothemuse #whereintheworldamI #india2018 #workingholiday #himachalpradesh #13Moons #shebaremy #lunar #metaphysicalartist

New Moon-ing *
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I’m not “religious” about following the lunar phases, preferring instead to let instinct take over. As it happened, I awoke at the hour of the sun+moon conjunction yesterday. There was a lot of noise outside our window and then a full on thunderstorm. When I sat down for the daily meditation, on a whim, I chose a different script. I’ve been doing an hourly mindfulness meditation since the crazy encounter with the flu in February, occasionally mixed with a Metta Bhavana sit. Yesterday, I chose at random a guided meditation by Sadhguru and I almost peed myself laughing during the intro. The entire meditation was a mantram: “I am not this body, I am not this mind.” Take that Aries ego! Right after I pulled twelve cards for my annual birthday reading. There were a few from last year that showed up. Less restart and more repeat.
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This view of these falls with a tragic story is only available if you don’t mind walking downhill (and then of course back up again) at a gradient of about 45 degrees. Needless to say, there weren’t many people around. It made me think about all the things we miss out on in life because they aren’t shoved into our faces. It’s sort of an all around metaphor. This region of India is woefully neglected, her people unappreciated and routinely disrespected. And yet, what profoundly sacred ground they’re walking on 🙏🏾
#whereintheworldamI #northeastindia #springtravels #meghalaya #india2018 #goddessabode #thegroundbeneathmyfeet #metaphors #natureheals #sacred #sacredground #metaphysics #newmoon #meditations #aries

Recalling the Goddess
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(3/3) We were the oldest people at Dylan’s Cafe, grey in a sea of hormones bopping along to the great poet Bob’s streaming soundtrack, but Shilpa, dressed in a black T tucked into black jeans and the reddest of sneakers treated us as most honorable guests. After taking our order, she hot-footed it to the kitchen where her commanding voice (belying her short stature) seemed to have everyone scurrying to attention. She simultaneously took down a phone order and served a group sitting north east of us and shot us a smile. Later, when we needed a taxi in the rain, she got her sweet boyfriend to drop us off in his ride for the meager sum of INR100.
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We tend to think of power in the context of big, bold and brash expressions, things that have the capacity to overpower rather than empower and practices and values that are extractive rather than regenerative. We understand power as being seen and being heard, which are fair enough expressions but far from forming the fullest picture. Yet our very existence - biologically, physically and spiritually - is predicated upon the good functioning of small things that are often invisible to the eye or heavily veiled. So what then really is power and to be powerful? I kind of fancied Shilpa’s red sneakers as one expression but also to know and value the power of plants and the unsolicited kindness (and abiding forgiveness) of our new friend.
#whereintheworldamI #northeastindia #springtravels #meghalaya #india2018 #caves #goddessabode #thegroundbeneathmyfeet #metaphors #redsneakers #smallthings #truepower #tobepowerful #anointed #natureheals

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