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| four canvas panel, each 150 x 120 cm, display from Museum Art Gallery, Mumbai |
Like breath repeats and creates a rhythm within the body, thoughts appear and re-appear to form the rhythm of the mind. Yet, it is difficult to pinpoint and say, out of the two which one elucidate more strength, which one is physical and which one is spiritual fiber in purest sense. Each thought is like a yarn within a woven fabric or an analogy within an anecdote that appears and reappears.
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Meditating on breath is like meditating on thought. Meditation on a syllable is like adding a drop of glue in a glass of water which becomes dense at every step. A syllable can be like a drop of water to the seed that is yearning to sprout. A seed on the earth is like a unit of desire, and the strength to sprout *
A syllable is spoken within the mind or pronounced softly. In between the two spoken words there is a silence, a silence within me and a silence within you. Like the words, silences repeat and merge with those spaces in the cosmos.
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The relationship between the tree and the ground can be symbolic of strength. Yet, ‘separation’ is inevitable- a leaf from the tree, and the tree from the ground, word from the mouth and thought from the mind, a yarn from the fabric and the seed from the pod- drop on the earth ( to appear again) .
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(appear, re-appear text written by Shubhalakshmi Shukla)
appear, re-appear series shown in 2008 in solo show in Museum Art Gallery, Max Mueller Bhawan, Mumbai and 2009 in group show Studio Practices curated by Sandra Khare at Gallery Chemould Prescott, Mumbai
