Punjabi Princess, Smoking Black Cloud
Nicola Singh
Edited by Priya Jay
Part poem, conversation, anecdote and song, Punjabi Princess, Smoking Black Cloud is set in an artist’s studio on the beach in St Ives, Cornwall, UK. The text traces a period of interrupted experimental research; the gory aftermath of an artist residency programme.
Written out of a ritualised practice that incorporates movement, voice and Raja Yoga practices, the text forms an embodied and psychic reckoning of a body buckled by St Ives waves and whiteness.
Intimately negotiating the racial imaginary through autobiography, Yogic Philosophy and a diverse range of cultural reference points, the text is an exercise in restorative healing.
