Equator

Equator is a photograph of a pregnant South Asian woman reproduced and arranged in a semi-circle around her own central body whose pose recalls Western depictions of the immaculate inception figure. This nude composition complicates the syncretic traditions of religious iconography with the Linea Negra prominently outlining the figures into a celestial body, recalling the Equatorial line and moon phases most commonly associated with fertility in precolonial, ancestral cultures.

The Linea Negra series photographs (2008-present) documents the inception of gender, power and race structures from slogans, slang, maxims and "old wives tales" to internalized, institutional violence. The works celebrate the melanin line appearing during gestation (most prominent in women of color) as a biological pieta; the first biographical mark on the procreative body and the first sign of our creative humanity.