Khoj Peers Residency

https://khojstudios.org/person/smita-rajmane/

The space between me and myself is enormous/ I cannot fathom where I begin and when I’m at the end of myself/ What is the distance between a leaf and a tree even if the leaf knows no other place to be?/I’ve come to lie so beautifully that my words wear the shine of truth, even if briefly

At Khoj Studios, Smita shows us how the mandated distance between a mosque protected by ASI/ And a place of dwelling should be fifteen metres/ But people live too close to the place of god in Khriki: they wash, cook, love, pray, pee/ This, Smita shows as negative distance, sometimes –0.03, the shadow of reality crawling up on what’s legality/