(M)OTHERWORLD
No. 3
Rajni Perera | Toronto, Canada
36” X 48” MIXED MEDIA ON PAPER BY RAJNI PERERA
“By the time Traveller lands, the post-apocalyptic world is in full flourish and we see the travellers in their integral glory as power beings possessing animal like qualities, lush and majestic like “the colors found in the center of the oldest, uninhabited forests, the highest altitudes of the sky, and the deepest depths of the oceans.” The travellers are the descendants and reincarnations of the subaltern - the immigrants of past worlds and empires, third culture people, and otherwise marginalized groups. They are of the post-apocalyptic landscape and working in sync with it. They carry within their bodies a resilience that hails from their predecessors ability to live within the decay of the previous world. They are inwardly oriented, meaning their focus is on the world they are building, their kin, and community. They are neither naive nor ignorant to the realities of their conception. They are the offspring of a (M)other which birthed them at the apex of the apocalypse and thus they carry with them the tools and protection necessary to withstand those conditions, should they ever manifest again.” Negarra A. Kudumu, Rajni Perera and Nep Sidhu: On World Making (2019)