Divya Mehra | It's Gonna Rain

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Image Credit: Karen Asher

"In praise of the Threat (thus coherence - of patriarchy, of ancestry, of narrative - is made by erasure and exclusion)," 2016

"In praise of the Threat (thus coherence - of patriarchy, of ancestry, of narrative - is made by erasure and exclusion)," 2016, tree slab, 13" x 2.5"

In Mehra's uncommon shrine to her own loss, she asks, How do we come to know violence? There is an implied relationship here — that we might actually be identified, that to know is fathomable, or even that one person's violence is universal. The set up is an uphill battle, just as it should be. There are so few days in this life and each one is never the same as before. - Kegan McFadden