Artist Pushpamala N. will visit Borderwork(s) October 8 -13, 2012 to collaborate with Duke history professor and BorderWork(s) core faculty member Sumathi Ramaswamy.  The project is titled     “ImpersoNations: Masquerading as Mother India,” and it is funded by the Vice Provost for the Arts and the Council for the Arts.  For more on the artist, see: https://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/pushpamala_n.htm.

Figure 1 (Left): The Motherland, artist: Jesudass. Chromolithograph published in Delhi, circa 1997. Image courtesy Patricia Uberoi

Figure 2 (Right): Mother India with map, artist N. Pushpamala.  Photographed installation work, circa 2011. Image courtesy: N. Pushpamala