For each episode of 5 Objects, we ask our guest to choose five pieces or items that have influenced their intellectual life and their work. These can be books, art, music, poetry, photographs, performance, a person, an event, or an experience. The choices then become the basis of a free-flowing conversation that discusses our guest’s life, their personal, political, and intellectual journeys and histories.

For this episode, Suchitra Vijayan spoke to artist and writer Alana Hunt.

You can learn about Alana’s work here

Alana’s 5 Objects

1. Queen Liliuokalani’s Quilt.

2. Statues also Die by Chris Marker, 1953.

3. MSS Pandian’s course The politics of nation-making.

4. Gija and Miriwoong–people and places.

5. Kashmir, my first visit, and more after.