In this iteration of the Body Drawings, I work with the deeply fraught, symbolically loaded, and unilaterally revered material that colors Hindu womanhood: SINDOOR.
Sindoor is a material applied to a Hindu woman's forehead to signify marriage and her arrival to Hindu womanhood. In other performances where I interact with very different materials, I allow my body to determine the course of the piece. When performing with this material, however, I require that my body interact with it under restraints. The often puritanical ideals of Hindu womanhood is something I can neither fully realize nor fully access. It is something I can only lightly touch, and that too, only when acting with grace and restraint.
Outdoor performance.
