The Making of a Mural series has been expanded to include the making of the traditional Anantasayanam and Ardhanariswara murals.
Category Archives: Exhibit
The Goddess Files – First Glimpses
Since as far back as I can remember, and that’s rather a longish patch of time I must mention, I’ve been pulled by the temples of Kerala. If I try and get objective about it, there are a number of factors that may have contributed to this, but while these may well have been necessary, …
Ardhanarisvara – The God Who is Half-Woman
This is among the more esoteric forms of Siva, the destroyer in the Hindu trinity. Beyond stereotypes, beyond boundaries and frameworks, Siva stands at the periphery of social order. Siva is the eternal ascetic, famed for his excesses, whether in penance and austerities or in sexual vigor. Siva, the intrinsic unpredictability immanent in everything that’s …
