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Kiran Rai-Bhullar

Portfolio · Series of 3

I Am the Diaspora

Caught in the storm of dual identities, western and eastern cultures battle for dominance. In the landscape of the body, I Am the Diaspora expresses the struggle of self-expression and acceptance amid these opposing worldviews.

Intaglio print on fabric, 10 × 8 in each · 2018

Shown

  • Sikh Heritage Month Group Exhibition, Platform Calgary, April 2026
  • Maharani Mentality: The Internal Divine, The Hub Gallery at artsPlace, Canmore, 2021
The three I Am the Diaspora prints in white frames on a gallery wall, in coral, sage and violet
At The Hub Gallery at artsPlace, Canmore, 2021. Photograph by Alvin Pham.

Side by side

  • I Am the Diaspora I, lines of poetry drawn as a necklace across a woman’s collar, printed on coral fabric
  • I Am the Diaspora II, a woman in profile with lines of poetry curving like a nose chain, printed on violet fabric
  • I Am the Diaspora III, lines of poetry drawn as an earring, printed on pale blue fabric

The prints

I Am the Diaspora I, lines of poetry drawn as a necklace across a woman’s collar, printed on coral fabric

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I Am the Diaspora I

2018
Intaglio print on fabric
10 × 8 in (25 × 20 cm)

Socialized through a generational divide. Though we wish to belong, we also fear that we don’t. Outcast by our own. Where do we go?

Studio collectionDetails: I Am the Diaspora I
I Am the Diaspora II, a woman in profile with lines of poetry curving like a nose chain, printed on violet fabric

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I Am the Diaspora II

2018
Intaglio print on fabric
10 × 8 in (25 × 20 cm)

Betrayed by your own tongue. To stutter is to be silenced. To reduce our vivid history to visual language. I cannot tell you, but I can show you.

Studio collectionDetails: I Am the Diaspora II
I Am the Diaspora III, lines of poetry drawn as an earring, printed on pale blue fabric

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I Am the Diaspora III

2018
Intaglio print on fabric
10 × 8 in (25 × 20 cm)

Caught between being both but also neither. The diasporic sentence, an uncertain promise. To survive is to leverage your legacy.

Studio collectionDetails: I Am the Diaspora III

On the wall

Close view of the coral print, lines of poetry drawn in the shape of a necklace, with the Love for Humanity mural through the doorway

Photograph by Alvin Pham.

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