Luck of Three seeks to capture the joy and complexity in belonging to a set of three daughters 🦋🦋🦋. The inherited clothes, hysteric arguments, and fierce protection in being raised by women.

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Across mythology and scripture, an arrangement of three women is considered a boon. The ancient Greeks revered the Moira — Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos — who spun, measured, and cut the thread of life. According to Iroquois legend, corn, beans, and squash are three inseparable sisters who only grow and thrive together. Thurka, Laxmi, and Saraswati are Hindu goddesses who represent strength, prosperity, and education, respectively.⁣⁣
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A family of three daughters is considered a blessing and a curse. A blessing for the mysticism attached to feminine deities and a curse because of reasons related to capital and debt. In certain South Asian cultures, the dowry system assigns a preconditioned price tag to women and contributes to female infanticide. Oftentimes, three daughters resemble three failed attempts to birth a son. There is wicked humour and sacred potential in this structure, a triple goddess cackle.⁣⁣

​We have curated four sets of sisters in distinct life stages; teenagehood, burgeoning adulthood, sisters turned aunts, and cousins turned siblings. Across generations and bedroom walls however, each sister is a vestibule for the others’ memory. “I don’t even remember this, how old was I?” asks Sabyna as Momina describes taking her to Mosque for the first time. “It was January 5th,” says Urvasi recalling the day she stopped talking to Kasthuri after an explosive fight.  

The following is a corridor to the memories that overlap and are inherited across sisters. Each set of three was provided with a disposable camera where they captured images that reflected their relationship. They also spoke to the gestures, places, and shifts within their relationship in an interview. It is our hope you will go through each family’s page and listen to their stories.
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We are so grateful to the sisters: Momina Habib, Uswa Habib, and Sabyna Habib; Sarangi Kumar, Branavi Kumar, and Athme Kumar; Kasthuri Ruban, Urvasi Parves, and Nilani Gengeswaran and; Amanda Yogendran, Sandra Weeks, and Melinda Yogendran. Thank you for your candid humour, vulnerability, and willingness to share in this project.  

We are also incredibly grateful for the love and artistic contributions of Krishanth Dineshkumar who produced the audio, and Luxvna Uthayakumar who designed the website.  
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As sets of three daughters ourselves, deeply familiar with survival against patriarchal conditions, Luck of Three is an embrace of the cosmic intervention that produced three sisters. We hope it brings you joy.


— Brannavy & Miru

Brannavy, Aherthy, & Janany

Nirusha, Mirusha, & Yanusha

Luxvna, Shrwena,& Varrshini

Name:Sarangi Kumarasamy
Age: 18
​Sign: Taurus ♉️
I spend most of my time in: Pickering,ON
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"The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” Walt Disney
Name:Branavi Kumarasamy
Age: 16
​Sign: Libra ♎️
I spend most of my time in: Pickering, ON
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"You got so much to do and only so many hours in a day" - Billy Joel
Name:Athme Kumarasamy
Age: 13
​Sign: Aquarius ♒️
I spend most of my time in: Pickering, ON
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"It's so iconic and so funny that like a five-year-old little girl was just like, 'don't sit next to me, I'm allergic to you."

00:16 Just kinda there
00:50 Fancy Sisters
01:15 Nail polish as a weapon
01:49 She's an animal!
02:13 I'm allergic to you
04:21 You have three daughters?
04:48 No, no, and still no
05:26 The millionaire aunt
Name: Momina
Age: 25​
Sign: Taurus ♉️
I spend most of my time at: my family’s home in Mississauga, ON
Status Update:
"Believing in Allah means practicing hope as a discipline.”

Name: Uswa
​Age: 24​
Sign: Aries ♈️
I spend most of my time at: my family’s home in Mississauga, ON​
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Name: Sabyna
Age: 19​
Sign: Scorpio​ ♏️
I spend most of my time at: my family’s home in Mississauga, ON
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"I've never felt like my parents ever wanted a boy, like I personally never felt that in my life."

01:29 That house
04:32 They stole her Barbie boots
05:21 Parking across the masjid
06:00 Mashallah
06:29 Yo, Sabyna never did that!
08:02 I probably would have left
10:25 Everything and nothing
10:59 The plan
Name:Amanda Yogendran 
Age: 33 aaaaaah ​
Sign: Taurus ♉️
Where you are from: Grew up in Surrey, now live in Brooklyn, NY
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Name: Sandra Weeks
​Age: 30
Sign: Aries ♈️
Where you are from: Grew up in Surrey, BC but been living in Montreal for 12 yrs 
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Name: Melinda Yogendran
Age: 28​
Sign: Aquarius ♒️
Where you are from: From Surrey, now in Toronto
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"I think seeing Sandra as a mom, for the first time
was really cool. I think it was part pride
but also just like in awe...because
there's something cool about seeing
your sister turn into a mother, it feels like
a magical experience..."

00:39 The ‘Jing Bang’
01:29 We already kind of felt like sisters
2:34 Oh, she knows me.
03:33 Not just a mother
4:09 She had no other examples to look to
04:49 When I ripped your poster
05:38 So assured by the femininity in our family
06:53 Multiplications of relationships
Name:Kasthuri Ruban
Age: 34
Sign: Cancer ♋️
Where you are from: Born in Sri Lanka Jaffna, but live in Markham
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Name: Urvasi Mayuri Parves
​Age: 31
Sign: Leo ♌️
Where you are from: Born in Sri Lanka Jaffna but live in Toronto
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Name: Nilani Gengeswaran
Age: 23
Sign: Gemini ♊️
Where you are from: Born in Sri Lanka Jaffna but live in Toronto
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“All immigrants are artists, you have to make something from nothing” Steven Yeun

"And she even wrote an apology letter and I - that's the first time I've ever held a grudge against anyone because I usually never do. And I think for three days, I didn’t talk to her."

01:43 Whenever I heard a helicopter
I used to shake
02:52 Working on communication
04:34 Best friends without me
04:58 Reincarnated baby
05:32 The Gardiner protests
06:52 My proudest moments
08:26 January 5th
08:57 Bring out the bribes
09:54 The babies and their futures
10:28 Not to be cheesy
10:55 I don't need to sell myself
10:55 You're a grandma
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