Week 5, Message from pavazha-malli
Dear Clifton,
one more step, and the quiet hope that
grace might just pause long enough
for us to stop and smell the roses.
Best
Week 6, Message from Clifton
Dear pavazha-malli,
Where the petals do not open on command,
not to rush, not to arrive,
but to belong in the hush,
where stillness lingers like scent in the air.
Best
Week 7, message from pavazha-malli
Dear Clifton,
a salty, musty hunger ravages
thick with the scent that fills the air;
hallways marked by sweaty bodies
and sticky floors. A graze, an accidental touch...
Week 8, Message from Clifton
Dear pavazha-malli,
the street divides,
the floor glistens with stains,
one way swells with bodies,
the other drifts to quiet,
a pause held in the cracks.
Alessandro Seccareccia (clifton)
Alessandro Seccareccia is a New York City-based artist born in Gatineau, Canada. Themes of society, diaspora, and economics are central to his photographic work. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the 2025 Photoville Festival in New York City, the 2024 Pingyao International Photo Festival in China, the American Center for Photography in North Carolina, the Project Tabloïde in Montreal and the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery in New York City. In 2017, Seccareccia received the AIMIA Photography Prize, hosted by the Art Gallery of Ontario, and his work has also been featured in numerous publications, including MuséeMagazine. He holds a BFA from Concordia University in Montreal and an MFA from Parsons School of Design in New York City.
Vasudhaa Narayanan (pavazha-malli)
Vasudhaa Narayanan is an artist and researcher whose practice engages with gender, domesticity, and the body through photography, text, sculpture, and performance. Her work critically examines the intersection of patriarchy, caste, and cultural conditioning, often using conceptual imagery to interrogate ideas of otherness, shame, and autonomy. Drawing from personal and collective narratives, she explores the ways in which women’s bodies become contested sites within social, historical, and domestic spaces.
Narayanan’s practice extends beyond visual art into curatorial, editorial, and pedagogical work, further reinforcing her commitment to research-based storytelling. She has served as Features Editor at The Irregular Times, contributing to four issues that spotlight underrepresented narratives from South Asia. In 2022, she co-curated the Mumbai Urban Art Festival at Sassoon Docks with St+art India Foundation, facilitating conversations around urban identities and cultural memory.
Vasudhaa Narayanan lives and works in Bombay, India. Her work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Halden Bookworks (Norway), Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts – Project Space (New York, NY), the Goethe-Institut (India), and Bass & Reiner (San Francisco, CA).