Printed Matter
“I don’t think the book is like a sanctified thing for me—it’s about highlighting the best and the worst of humanity”
Growing up, Shubigi Rao considered the books in her home library her third parent. Even though her family lived in a remote part of the Himalayas in Darjeeling, India, in the 1970s, “I never felt lonely because I was lost in these books all the time—and I read whatever I could get my hands on,” shares the Mumbai-born Singaporean artist and writer.
“I was brought up very much by reading the words and voices of humanity across time and space—and it didn’t matter that [as a young Indian girl], I was the wrong audience for some of the books; I read and enjoyed them anyway, and I felt included,” she says. “There was no distance, whether geographical, political, ethnic, or over
