Artist Statement

The evocation “the meaning of life is love” spray-painted under a concrete bridge inspired my creative process. Art as intervention, as manifesto, art as activism are avenues where my resistance and resilience in the face of injustice and ecocide still flourish. It is not only imperative to acknowledge the intersectional terrains of the personal and socio-political, it is increasingly urgent to evoke the sacred—living, being and staying connected to the interrelationship of all life. Experiencing multifaceted and systemic inequality and consequent adversity is revealing—we can survive without specific necessities but we cannot truly live without love—without connection.

Link to condensed essay:

Our Hearts as a Map for Change:
Notes on Heart Cognition as a Radically Divergent Way of Knowing & Being

by Rajdeep S. Gill and Fabiola Nabil Naguib