By Caroline Giles Banks – Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Silent Waters
An Installation by Pritika Chowdhry, 2023
Chowdhry’s 101 larger-than-life ceramic feet placed on opposite sides of a twisted line memorializes those who died in the violence during the partition of India in 1947.
jet black containers
Once filled with salt water the hollow clay feet are lined with the residue of crystallized salts.
the dried tears
I want to defy the museum’s security system, to step over the rope barricade, and place my feet
next to theirs. Together to jump over history’s crooked lines.
of memory
Cattails (October 2023)
*See “Conflict Between India and Pakistan/ Global Conflict Tracker.” www.cfr.org February 18, 2026 for information on recent relations between India and Pakistan.