Jhani Randhawa is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar, whose praxis centres the performative uses of literature, archival marginalia, and bodies to illuminate limits of legality, memory, and racially gendered power within the ongoing ecological crises of settler colonialism. Winner of the 2024 California Book Award for their debut poetry collection, Time Regime (Gaudy Boy, 2022), Jhani’s work has appeared in the New Art Gallery Walsall (Walsall, England) and the Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), as well as publications A Mouth Holds Many Things: A Hybrid Literature Anthology, ASAP/J, 128 Lit, Footnotes, and O BOD, among others. You can learn more about their work at www.jfkrandhawa.com.

For more information about Sujatha Baliga and Spiritual Fitness, please see the following link:

https://www.sujathabaliga.com/spiritual-fitness

For more information about Annah, Infinite by Khairani Barokka, please see the following link:

https://www.tiltedaxispress.com/annah-infinite

We discussed:

• The relationship between Buddhist practice and art

• Diving deep in community during a retreat at the Upaya Zen Center
• Surabhi (aka Kamadhenu) and early experiences with Sikhism
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and learning to accept your whole self
• And the importance of taking your time with the tensions that come up along the Buddhist path and practicing “looking again”
• Also, think about creating a photo journal!