Pakistani American artist Shahzia Sikander. Still from SpiNN (2003), Digital Animation with sound, 6:38 minutes.
“A pun on the news media channel CNN, SpiNN depicts a dense mass of abstracted imagery spiraling inwards, hovering like a swarm of angry black crows or bats. It eventually settles into the image of a traditional Mughal durbar hall incongruously populated by gopi women (devotees of the Hindu god Krishna), whose abstracted black hairdos comprise the central imagery of the work.”