NARINDER BAZEN

Conceptual Artist | Founder of the Nine Keys School of Death Arts

NARINDER BAZEN

I am a conceptual artist who challenges the status quo for a living. I love people, and I especially love empowering them.
I blend death work, art, mysticism, and straight talk as culture midwifery for enchanted living.

Since 2014, my art has unfolded through death work-transforming death care and grief work into a subversive, imaginative, and necessary practice for navigating both personal loss and the unraveling of the world as we know it. My work is driven by a deep interest in world-building through the lens of grief work and death work.

In 2019 I founded a school of death arts called Nine Keys.

I am passionate about serving artists and death workers as they navigate the imagining of what death work is while righting the wrongs of the systems that have commodified death and compounded our grief for hundreds of years. I see through the cracks in what we have become to glimpse a world where humanity is restored through a homecoming to death, one of the most holy moments of life. Living in death awareness, this culture is softened, deepened, and re-enchanted, allowing us to remember who we are and how we live for one another.

I come from a long line of old wives' tales. My ancestors are shrouding women.

walk in my shoes

NINE KEYS

To walk close with death as a practice of sovereignty.
For artists who feel the call into death work.
For death workers whose inner artist is aching to come alive. To create art and magic through the work of dying and grieving. To imagine death care in ancient-future forms for yourself and your community. To midwife a society in hospice, composing new worlds from its unraveling.
To make from grief - installation, reclamation and story. To be a parallel current to soulless death care industries. To live in death awareness, and thus, to come more fully to life.

SCHOOL of DEATH ARTS

See the Keys

BE WITH NARINDER

DEATH WORK MENTORSHIP

New world mapping through your calling. One-on-One mentorship, soft-business development, death work as art form/medium and death work as deep study.

TWO CROWS GUIDANCE

Spiritual counseling with an edge. Two Crows Guidance offers a place to pause, reconnect with your magic, and remember why you’re here when you feel like you’ve lost the map. It’s visionary
support for those in the middle of the road.

ILLUSTRATION

Narinder’s visual art. Ethereality drawn with pencil. Botanicals and wildlife. Dreamlike. Dyslexic. Sacred. A hobby of impermanence. Grief in process. Whimsy at the front. An homage to beauty.