Chaff & light trash
November 20–23, 2020
Hagan Gallery, Princeton University
Undergraduate thesis exhibition


“Put the rice in, and run cold water in to fill the pot so that
the chaff and light trash floats to the top. Some grains of rice
will rise, too, but save them.”

—Edna Lewis in the Taste of Country Cooking



Chaff & light trash
surfaces overlaps, contradictions, and confusions between material symbolisms that emerge from histories of South India, where my parents grew up, and the Southern United States, where I grew up.

© 2025 Bhavani Srinivas