K. Vencill is an artist, curator, and cofounder of Wheat Toast. He earned his BFA from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2008, and is an MA candidate in Arts Administration and Policy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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During the Indian Navjote ceremony, the ritual rite of passage where the person is accepted into the Parsi community, a priest ties a sacred thread around the child’s waist as he or she chants the Ahuna-Vairya (ancient prayers).
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During the Indian Navjote ceremony, the ritual rite of passage where the person is accepted into the Parsi community, a priest ties a sacred thread around the child’s waist as he or she chants the Ahuna-Vairya (ancient prayers).

LINDSAY HEBBERD/CORBIS