
Aankhein Band Kar Ke Dekho (Close Your Eyes and See)
2022, 05:26 minutes, colour, English
TAPECODE 651.13
Hearing that my mother had her eyes closed for the duration of her wedding ceremony has always struck me. I wanted to explore this experience of my mother as a way to honour her courage and inner resourcing. The trust and grounding in her own self that closing her eyes must have required is a form of resilience and saying yes to uncertainty. I want to see this moment in her life as not just one of being a victim. I want to upend my way of seeing her as helpless and to see her dignity and power. I trace my arrival on Lək̓ ʷəŋən lands and waters through my mother. As a way of introducing myself to the water here, I re-enact many of the wedding rituals my mother underwent with the Salish Sea.
اپنی آنکھیں بند کرکے دیکھو۔
دُلہن کا روپ محض اِک بھیس ہے، اپنی آنکھیں بند کرکے دیکھو۔
آپ کی آمد انتظام پہ انتطام سے ہوی-
ایک، دوسرے کو بےگھر کرتا ہے- ماتم کی شدت، اپنی آنکھیں بند کرکے دیکھو۔
آپ کےدُکھ کا مداوا دُکھ میں ہی موجود ہے۔
اشکوں کی فراوانی پرحیرت کیسی، اپنی آنکھیں بند کرکے دیکھو۔
ملال کا گہونگٹ اٹھاواورمُجھے اپنا چہرہ دکھاؤ۔
آپکا دوپٹّہ لہروں کی طرح کھُلتا ہے، اپنی آنکھیں بند کرکے دیکھو۔
جنت، ہِمت، عِزت، سب آپکے پاؤں تلے ہیں۔
ہر سانس سمندر کی مانند گہری، اپنی آنکھیں بند کرکے دیکھو۔
Aankhein band kar ke dekho, close your eyes and see.
Becoming a bride is just a disguise, close your eyes and see.
You arrive by an arrangement of arrangements.
One displaces another; volumes of goodbye, close your eyes and see.
The ease for your dukh lies within dukh itself.
The wealth of tears is no surprise, close your eyes and see.
Show me your face and lift your veil of grief.
Your dupatta unfurls with the tides, close your eyes and see.
Jannat, himmat, izzat all lie beneath your feet.
Each breath an ocean’s sigh, close your eyes and see.
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