Nilima Sheikh Indian, b. 1945
76.2 x 198.1 cm
Some months ago, on the 10th of January, 2018, a "chirping bird" who “ran like a deer", an eight-year-old girl from the family of the Bakarwals near Jammu did not return from taking her horses out to graze. What was done to her by a goup of men of the settled communities is difficult to recount. I feel the need to try, as many others like me have, to restore to her a modicum of dignity. By tracking the trails of her lands, to keep reminding us of the blood on them.
- Nilima Sheikh