Meditations from the Art Village of Orissa

It’s the breathtaking art that takes the breath away - Pattachitra Paintings!

More powerful than the body is the mind and more powerful than the mind is the breath.

And if an artist does his strokes on Tusser silk with the breath drawn inwards until the stroke is complete, the yoga sutras can only vouch for such a man to have harnessed his mind and eventually senses.

Depictions of Vedic knowledge on the canvas speaking of temples and deities, avatars and bhakti, marriage and relationships… all with tamarind seed powder and turmeric and blue stone and conchshell powder.

Such is life! Such is expression! Such is this land!

Ecology, divinity, duties, and dharma painted aesthetically on fabrics and leaves.