For this new week’s research post, I have chosen to cover the artist Bharti Kher. Bharti Kher is an artist who is at the center stage of the contemporary art scene in India. In the span of Kher’s nearly three-decade-long career, she has done paintings, sculptures, and installations that have explored the relationship between the body, its narrative, and the nature of things. Kher finds her inspiration from the history and philosophy of India and more so from mundane moments. Using a refined contemporary sensibility, the artist addresses topics of culture and tradition with the use of sentiment unique to India as well as an abundance of color. Kher is internationally known for her signature use of bindi in her works. She explains how most people see the bindi as either a symbol of marriage or aesthetic, but it is actually a representation of the third eye which forges a link between the spiritual world and the actual world.