At once corrosive and contemplative, A Season Outside (1997) – which was designed to resemble a documentary – explores the rhetoric of violence and non-violence. The subjects covered by this work range from the Indian-Pakistani border in the Punjab, the trauma of the 1947 partition and the oppression and mass-displacement of Tibetans to minor aspects of quotidian life, such as ritualized jousting matches, the reckless cruelty of children and the roots of interpersonal and domestic violence. Although the text follows a single thread, the images linger – opening up onto other spaces and layers that reverberate beyond the linear text: a pair of crows peck relentlessly at a tiny puppy; prize fighting goats ram each other at full force as onlookers cheer; while a group of border guards – like dancing, plumed warriors – perform amongst themselves a nightly ritual of domination and contempt set against a barbed wire background.