#cultural-rituals

#cultural-rituals

The carefully arranged severed pieces of the teenage girl's body were positioned to create an illusion of completeness, suggesting a deeper ritualistic significance in burial practices.

In ancient India, where sugar cane was first cultivated, people learned to coax geometric shards from boiled cane juice, known as khanda, the root word for candy.

Water is a kind of archive, a kind of storehouse of memory that is, nevertheless, always in flux. Water has a clear chemical formula, but that is perhaps the only thing clear about this most fundamental of agents in the lives of people and societies.

Each card felt like a future conversation waiting to happen. The act itself, the handoff, the glance, was more than transactional. It was relational.