| In celebration of the 145th birthday of Holy Mother Sri Sarada
Devi, (December 1998), we present this exhibition of prints as an artist’s
interpretation of the Vedantic concept of the Motherhood of God. First presented in 1994
at New York’s noted Printmaker’s Workshop Gallery, the artist dedicated these
works to the Great Master Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda,
and the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center of New York. The artist, whose work is represented
in many collections throughout the United States and abroad, is the recipient of a number
of major awards and in 1998 was featured in a Public Television documentary about the
Printmaker’s Workshop. |
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THE
ARTISTS’ STATEMENT:
"THE MOTHER OF THE UNIVERSE"
These graphics teach us that ours is not a life governed by the outside world but lived in
the upper reaches of spiritual life, where God as Mother is active in a process which is
eternal and unchanging. In these suites of prints, the Mother of the Universe is the
invisible power in prayer and meditation. Traditionally, in India, the Mother of the
Universe is illustrated as the blue-black image embodying the powers of creation,
preservation and destruction. Each suite consists of ten 18" x 18" prints joined
together by a single thread. Formed into folded panels, the prints are approached as
geometrically changing forms, repeated as squares and rotated
circles. Each panel, like a folded book, is a prayer or
mantra that in essence represents the Divinity as the One who becomes manifested as the
Many. The Divine Mother of the Universe is no other than the Absolute – the Brahman
of Vedanta. |
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