Author: Isha Black

Dance of the Infinite

“The mind cannot contain the infinite but it may choose to dance on our tongues.” ~ I.B. Das

Daśa Triśūla, the Spears of Goloka

This is my latest work for the collection ” In search of the Golden Vyūha” . These are works are visual abstraction of scriptural concepts established in Vaiṣṇava Śāstra.  The background to this piece is presented in the following two excerpts. As an visual artist who create images I found these passages pose as a challenge to my process pushing my practice […]

Progression and Conceptual Adjustment

Seva – service, dedication, is the summum bonum of the teachings of the Vaisnava school, the third plane of life where every unit is a dedicating member in an organic whole. In such a normal adjustment, everyone mutually assists one another in their service to the center, the higher recipient, the highest entity. ~ Swami […]

Versions of Reality

Three sages are on a mountain concentrating their consciousness in pursuit of the divine. After some time one person experiences the true nature of their soul and relished the bliss of that realisation. The second person seeing this transformation, and not wishing to be outdone by the first, imitates the first person’s behavior without the […]

Premāstra

Premāstra : The force of divinity that creates an explosion within one’s consciousness when in the association of a saint who is rich in divine love (prema). It is a piercing force like a arrow ( astra ) that steals the mind and one’s very self from the inside out. Common symptoms reveal as major […]

Reality is Searching for itself

“Why did you stay away? Why have you been living away from home for so long? How was it possible for you? How could you bear My separation? You left Me, and you have been passing lives after lives without Me? Still, I know what trouble you took to return to Me. You searched for […]

The Hungry Hand

This is a graphic made from appropriating Jim Phillips screaming hand graphic for Santa Cruz skateboards. I first saw these graphics as a teenager in the 80s looking through skate fashion magazines of my father. As the fashion move through its wave of nostalgia the Santa Cruz brand has become popular again.Seeing this iconic image I […]

Technologic

As a 16 year old art student focused on painting, there was a lot of conceptual anxiety to process as a as my mind came to grips with the notion of computer art. Art made by a machine vrs the hand of the Artist. It was a big debate. Life before the web. Nowadays the […]

Mountains of Ego

ahaṇkāra-nivṛttānāṁ keśavo nahi dūragaḥahaṇkāra-yutānāṁ hi madhye parvvata-rāśayaḥ ~ Brahma-vaivarta Purana: 3.9.9 “The Supreme Lord Keśava remains in the company of persons who are free from a mundane conception of life; but there appears to be a great mountain range between the self-asserting egotists and the Lord.” The only obstacle to surrender is self-asserting ego For an artist with […]