To be lost in Varanasi is dangerously exciting.
Associate Professor Cherine Fahd, School of Design
Varanasi, or Banaras as the locals call it, is one of India’s most sacred cities. Located in the province of Uttar Pradesh in northern India, it is an important place of pilgrimage for Hindus.
Buddhists and spiritual seekers from around the globe are also drawn to its waters. For yogis there is a transformative promise of gurus and ashrams. For Buddhists there is Sarnath, the town where Buddha is believed to have given his first teaching after receiving enlightenment.
In 2018 I was awarded a two-month artist residency by Asialink to Varanasi’s Kriti Gallery.
Read the full story in The Conversation: If I could go anywhere: India’s Varanasi — a sacred site on a river of rituals and altered states