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Between Pleats

October 22, 2020October 23, 2020 ~ Najrin Islam ~ Leave a comment

The first piece of paper that I folded to make an object took the shape of a paper plane. Birds and fish followed, as extra-curricular classes in school offered lessons on how to transform a square piece of paper into weightless, multi-dimensional objects that bore likeness to their functional/live counterparts. There was something exciting about … Continue reading Between Pleats

What We Eat

December 13, 2019September 26, 2020 ~ Najrin Islam ~ Leave a comment

Formative drawing and painting lessons often resort to essentialist representations of “village life” as if it was a monolithic aspiration for a simultaneously extant and bygone simplicity; it almost always constitutes a bullock cart, a farmer, a field, a small hut and a clear horizon (or a similar tableau). These staples come to define a … Continue reading What We Eat

The Rhizome

September 2, 2019September 11, 2020 ~ Najrin Islam ~ Leave a comment

The title ‘Five Million Incidents’ evokes a numerical anxiety, and an impossibility in its rejection of conceivable time and quantity. At the same time, it points to the very real possibility of horizontal simultaneity where incidents overlap and even cause each other’s happening. This osmosis of space and time becomes a neural network of sorts, … Continue reading The Rhizome

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