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Earth, river, and mountains meld with faces and bodies in this imaginative self-portrayal by Sheba Chhachhi. In the desert tones of a barren landscape, a deep-red winged creature bearing the artist’s face flies toward an assembly of nude figures in a formation reminiscent of temple architecture. A second enlarged self-portrait is overlaid sideways across the foreground as if shaped by the very earth below. Collapsing the human and non-human while alluding to the spiritual, Chhachhi invites us to reflect on our deep connection to the environment and our manifold relationship to nature.