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Narinder B / 16x20 / 2025
watercolor, pencil
Still, Life
death is the muse
Online Opening Reception for the
Nine Keys School of Death Arts
September 7th @7-9pm ET
Full Moon in Pisces • Lunar Eclipse
Event Details:
📍 Online Gallery - Zoom
Open from 7–9pm Eastern
Stop by any time!
🍷 BYOB :)
RSVP for free below!
A Special Night. A Threshold. A Celebration.
Join us for an evening of art, story, and collective remembering.
This reception honors Nine Keys (2020–2025) Narinder Bazen’s durational conceptual art piece, as it redresses into the Nine Keys School of Death Arts.
✨ Readings and conversations
✨ Slide presentations woven throughout of Nine Keys Apprentices’ art
✨ Narinder’s stories of Nine Keys
✨ Visits with the Keybies, sharing how they weave death work + art
✨ Your well-wishes for the Nine Keys School of Death Arts
Some fancy high-falutin art words: yet definitions rooted in the soul…
Durational piece: Nine Keys has been sustained without pause for five years, with the intention to continue for another five. Ritual, time, community, and transformation are the mediums.
Concept: The work exists through its unfolding, with documentation, the art created by death workers, and Narinder’s own concepts, rituals, teachings, and guidance serving as ephemera - the residue of the process.
Art object: The work is immaterial; the true piece is the shift in perspective it brings.
Special thanks to Meghan Allynn Johnson, Melissa Word, and Deryn Helleborus for their consultation and support as Nine Keys unfolded and redressed into the School of Death Arts, and to all the apprentices over the years whose art, grief, and vision have carried the work into forms beyond itself. Thank you to the many people who allowed Narinder to be close to the their deaths and grief. And ultimately, thank you to the Great Primordial Mother, for holding the mystery from which this work continually emerges.
“I am so proud of myself. I did this apprenticeship for myself. I wanted to know who I would be on the other side of it. The Calling has taught me that I need to live - not just with curiosity and wonder, but also with joy.”
— Diane C Lowe