Monsoon-Reflections

Monsoon-Reflections
Stephanie Spray
2008, video, 22 min.

Drawing its title from a poem by Lekhnath Paudyal, who depicts the monsoon season as sublime and blissful, this video focuses instead on the melancholy and grit of two female Nepali field hands as they carry out their monsoon routines in Lekhnath, Nepal. The video is a sensorial riposte to Paudyal's idealistic depiction of the monsoon as "joyous from start to finish," by means of reflection on labor, gender, and fleeting pleasures in rural Nepal.

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