Daisy Rockwell

@shreedaisy.bsky.social

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Artist, writer, Hindi-Urdu translator, etc. http://www.daisyrockwell.com 🍉🍉🍉

A panel from Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi. Text is in French about how she accepted wearing hijab when it was imposed in Iran, but her family did not, being avant garde.
A 1971 Ladies’ Home Journal photoshoot of Norman Rockwell’s family at a Thanksgiving meal, recreating his 1943 painting “Freedom from Want”
The cover for the novel Tomb of Sand which depicts the back of an older Indian woman in a purple sari on a sky blue background and her own mirror image as well as some things that look like orange yellow green tendrils or roots waving around.
The cover image for my translation of the Hindi novel Our City that Year, by Geetanjali Shree. It shows a window with three shadowy figures and a purple wall with mysterious reddish leaves floating about.
The cover for my translation of Khadija Mastur’s Urdu novel The Women’s Courtyard featuring a painting by Pakistani artist Shahzia Sikander which depicts a woman in a blue sari standing among the ruins of a once grand house.
Image showing the cover of my translation of the acclaimed Hindi novel Tamas, by Bhisham Sahni. Cover shows a woodcut print of a dead pig lying in the entryway of a mosque, an illustration of the incident which sparks the book’s central riot. The woodcut is by artist Anagh Banerjee
The cover for the US edition of Our City that Year, by Geetanjali Shree, translated by Daisy Rockwell from Hindi. Purple background with a mysterious window in the middle showing three silhouettes.