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If Heaven Is Under My Mother's Feet, What Is Under Mine?

There is a hadith, a teaching, in Islam that states that Heaven is Under Your Mother’s Feet. T

 

This project explores the question, If Heaven Is Under My Mother’s Feet, What Is Under Mine?

 

I record myself performing my labors of care, which is what I believe leads to the planting of heaven under my mother's feet, and seeing what sticks to my feet: cooking for my loved ones with onion peels underfoot, devoting myself to my artistic practice, attempting to wipe off in the grass before tending to my soul by praying. 

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