PRINTED WORK
SHADOW COMMS #3: AGAINST THE WORLD PLANTATION :
[mixed sizes], 28 pages risograph & laserjet color print. This publication documents the material exhibited in the first installment of the “Against the World Plantation” series, at Solitary Confinement in Richmond. Virginia in Fall 2023. It includes reproductions of 3 large acrylic on mulberry paper paintings portraying contemporary plantation labor, and 12 small gouache & ink on mulberry paper drawings focusing on the same cash crops (sugarcane, cotton, tobacco), but these were drawn exclusively from the photo catalog of the World Bank, taken in the mid to late 20th Century.
SHADOW COMMS #2, 40 pages (mixed sizes) multi-color risograph and photocopy, edition of 125. Available online and in person at Printed Matter , in person at Property Is Theft, and more soon
Shadow Comms #2 focuses on Partition Ecologies, drawing from the colonial-eye view of documentary photography to meditate on the violent sights of borders, counterinsurgency, austerity and climate crisis as they face the majorities of the world, along with responses of insurrection and resilience. This installment of the publication project prioritizes image and experiments in formal construction over text, featuring full color drawings & paintings along with extended inserts.
SHADOW COMMS VOL. 1 , 40 pages 11x17 multi-color risograph, 2022, edition of 250, (Available at The PIT and Printed Matter) Photocopy Edition Available at BRZD)
Description:
Shadow Comms Vol.1 is a collection of fragmentary meditations on radical left struggles in the South Asian subcontinent, from an ‘american born confused desi’. The project covers themes from the Indian Occupation of Kashmir to the rise of Hindu Fascism, histories of caste and british imperialism, the historic Farmer’s Strike, Naxalite groups, climate shock and garment workers struggle in Bangladesh, and more. This is a more focused regional scope than the first installment of Shadow Comms: it’s personally driven by frustration at neoliberal multicultural counterinsurgency in the wake of the George Floyd Uprising. Instead of approaching this through confessional and expository modes, the project stays with the modes of radical left surrealist traditions. This is crafted as agitprop/confrontation toward more radical forms of internationalism and solidarity among first-gen desis, and anybody alien or otherwise who can find resonance here.
[C.W.: As with Shadow Comms #0, There are images and descriptions of racialized violence]
^ Two versions of a Poster made in Solidarity with 2 Indonesion Political Prisoner, Printed on Risograph by Kohei (WWAV PUNK) for a solidarity event on 6/11/22 International Anarchist Day of Solidarity with Political Prisoners in Tokyo JPN
^ “Okra [Bendakai] Flowers in the Americas”, 3-color Gradient Silkscreen Print, 12”x 18” , 11/2021, Edition of 25-- Available at Printed Matter
SHADOW COMMS #0 , 28 pgs 11x17 Color Photocopy, 2021. Edition of 250-- Available at Brown Recluse Zine Distro
MACHINE , 16 pgs 11 x 17 Black and White Photocopy, 2015 Edition of 150 (Out of Print)
BACTERIA, 16 pgs, 11 x 17 Black and White Photocopy on Creme Paper, 2014, Edition of 150, Out of Print
SHARDS, 16 pgs, 11 x 17 B&W Photocopy on Creme Paper, 2013, Edition of 100- Out of Print