[Bio c. 2009]

Bapa Jhala is a visual anthropologist at Temple University. Trained as a gemologist, filmmaker and anthropologist Bapa Jhala assembles mobile sculptures from organic materials, makes ethnographic and ‘other’ films and jewels where the process of inclosing mineral in metal is reversed and jade and quartz and other gem materials are embedded with other minerals and metals.

www.temple.edu/anthro/jhala/index.html

Rann Walk Ocean: Jayasinhji Jhala , Liluye Jhala, Courtney Stoll

Steps Walk Red: Jayasinhji Jhala Liluye Jhala, Keith Marchiafava, Marika 
Otto's Descent: Jayasinhji Jhala, Rhett Grumbkow, Anirudhsinh Jadeja

 

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Role Project
Artist Ethnographic Terminalia: Philadelphia

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Role Project
Artist Rann Walk Ocean
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