Category: The Beautiful

Maya Pralaya

This is a painting I finally finished after chipping away at for a few years. It is inspired by the pastime of Mārkaṇḍeya Rishi’s vision of Maya – the illusionary energy of divinity and the destructive force of the pralaya as described in the Śrīmad Bhāgavatam. I love the cosmic nature of this pastime, finding […]

Fame is Lame

nidrālasya hata, sukārje virata,akārje udyogī āmipratiṣṭha lāgiyā, śāṭhya-ācharaṇa,lobha-hata sadā kāmī Ruined by laziness and sleep, I resist all pious deeds, yet am very enthusiastic to perform wicked acts. For the sake of worldly fame and reputation I engage in the practice of deceitfulness. I am always lustful and a victim of my own greed.

Pixel Face

“From medium to medium, the real is volatilized, becoming an allegory of death. But it is also, in a sense, reinforced through its own destruction. It becomes reality for its own sake, the fetishism of the lost object: no longer the object of representation, but the ecstasy of denial and of its own ritual extermination: […]

Polarity

“Material peace is created by reducing polarisation while spiritual ecstasy becomes available by increasing it.”

Edit Rumi

When you are looking for God,God is in the look of your eyes. A friend posted this Rumi quote on facebook the other day. Rumi is a great sage of the Islamic culture and a testimony to the beauty of poet’s ability to express divinity that crosses the borders of time and culture. According the […]

Black Cloud River

First note of hope playing in the mind of many Will it be lost in the ocean of Maha Tattva? Conjecture without higher backup circles nowhere Black Cloud River is an experiment of prose in the twitter stream. I have not used twitter much as a communication tool being a bit adverse to the way it […]

Save the Earth Love your Mother

This is a poster I created for a charity project I started the golden gift . I haven’t done much with it since I’ve had children but have hopes to give it more energy once all my kids are at school. The idea came from a sticker I saw with the same slogan but a […]

Eyes and Mines

This image is from a series called Eyes and Mines and depicts a battlefield of consciousness. It shows the mental conflict between two individuals trying to claim reality for the own, be that a morsel of food, a piece a land , a country or an asteroid in space and how other are influenced by the various ways a cultural narrative is framed […]

Cosmic Comedy

“The sound of a romantic’s laughter is more intoxicating that of the skeptics.”