My name is Narinder Elizabeth Bazen. (she/her)

I am a conceptual artist, illustrator, writer, and death educator working at the crossroads of death care, art, mysticism, and culture midwifery. For over a decade, my art has unfolded through death midwifery, spiritual guidance, and death work mentorship—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 death work began as a call from my yoga and art communities in a gritty southern city, bringing me into conversations about terminal diagnoses, home funerals, burials, murder, suicide, and the vast landscapes of grief. Over the years, I have held space for people from vastly different walks of life, bearing witness to how death both fractures and forges us.

I have installed, performed, written, and illustrated death educational and grief expressive pieces for many years.

My Nine Keys death midwifery apprenticeship emerged organically, becoming a conceptual art piece of its own—a vast web of healing that restores the connection between death and creativity, reviving both the individual and the collective, returning us to soulfulness.

Similarly, my Enchanted Life Guidance practice arose from community requests—people seeking a return to play, wonder, and the unseen forces shaping their days. I remind them how to move with the gods of whimsy, how to find grief as a portal for maturation, the spirits of serendipity, and the beauty that still exists, even in times of collapse.

My work is my joy, my art, my guide. When I’m not immersed in it, I’m on Wabanaki land (Maine), drawing, writing, listening to sleepy jazz or loud Vivaldi, wandering aimlessly, cuddling my dog Oak, and dreaming of a world where we are all nourished, seen, and safe.

To see some my drawings feel free to visit my Impermanent Collection.