My Friend Phanis Sister:
I normally do not take portrait commissions but this dear friend of mine in Hyderabad requested me for his kid sister portrait who had unfortunately passed away in 1991.
The Photograph intrigued me as she had curiosity and divine innocence in her eyes.
In the end when i handed over the portrait to Phani tears rolled down his cheeks and he hugged me that perhaps was the best award for my labor
One of my last major canvases Kali Ma - Always
fascinated by the ferocious yet attractive demeanor
Philosophy- The goddess kali meaning in Hinduism and hindu mythology is a manifestation of
the Divine Mother. It is an hindu god that represents the female
principle. Those not comprehending her many meanings and roles in life call
Kali the goddess of destruction. She destroys only to recreate, and what she
destroys is sin, ignorance and decay.
The mother goddess is equated with the eternal night
meaning, and is the transcendent power of time, Kali or Maha-Kali, is the
consort of the god Shiva. In myth, it is Shiva who
destroys the world, and Kali is the power or energy with which Shiva acts. So,
she is Shiva’s Shakti, without which Shiva could not
act.
The mother kali is a pre-Aryan goddess of time and divine feminine. She belongs
to the civilization of the Indus Valley. There is no evidence that Aryan
people ever raised a female deity to the rank that she held in the Indus. And
currently she maintains it in Hinduism.
The mother goddess is equated with the eternal night meaning, and is
the transcendent power of time, Kali or Maha-Kali, is the consort of the
god Shiva. In myth, it is Shiva who
destroys the world, and Kali is the power or energy with which Shiva acts. So,
she is Shiva’s Shakti, without which Shiva could not
act.
The mother kali is a pre-Aryan goddess of time and divine feminine. She belongs
to the civilization of the Indus Valley. There is no evidence that Aryan
people ever raised a female deity to the rank that she held in the Indus. And
currently she maintains it in Hinduism.
The name Kali Ma comes from Kalma. It is a hunter of tombs and eater of
the dead. She had this name in Finland. Also the name of the Black Goddess.
European “witches” worshipped her in funeral places.
For the same reasons, the Tantric yogis and dakinis worshipped her in cremation
grounds, as Smashana-Kali, Lady of the Dead.
Former pagans adored her in cemeteries as the Black Mother Earth. There
the Roman tombstones invoked her with the phrase Mater genuit, Mother
receipt-the Mother bore me, the Mother took me back.
Sometimes Kali, the Destroyer, wore red symbolizing the blood that she gave and
took back. “as She devours all existence, as She chews all things existing with
Her fierce teeth. So a mass of blood is the apparel of the Queen of the Gods at
the final dissolution.”
The gypsies in their worship of Kali ma Goddess of disease, clothed her in red.
Red is the proper color of gypsy funerals.
Always admired this artwork and enjoyed working on it as well
Venus of Turin----Inspired by Titian,have always cherished doing a large canvas this is by far my larges 32*36 inches,was tough to do the linen and the curtain but eventually the patience paid off.
This canvas(36"*36")is the largest of my canvas so far and it took me approximately 6 weeks to complete this,I have always been fascinated by horses .
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