By Leila Weefur

Percussive Ritual in Asma Kazmi’s City of Pilgrims

Are all pilgrims exhausted? A question gracefully posed by Bay Area artist Asma Kazmi in Indian Mangoes by the Red Sea. In this piece, she offers a moment of devotional interaction between two bodies, human and fruit, demonstrating the capacity to transform under the conditions of ritual in prayer, in consumption, and in journey. The…