Two girls sit on cut rock sinking into a sewerage way, manufacturing flower... (2011).
Two girls sit on cut rock sinking into a sewerage way, manufacturing flower... (2011).
Full Description: Two girls sit on cut rock sinking into a sewerage way, manufacturing flower chains for sale in funeral rites, along the banks of the River Ganges; Two girls sit on magical boat made of stone, plaiting reifs of flowers in preparation for their arrival at Svarga Loka by way of the Ganga.
This Standard Edition print comes from the project ‘Slum Life’. This scene was captured in 2018.
Standard Edition prints are printed on archival papers in the most advanced modern inks. All prints come in an archival protective slip. Standard Edition prints are designed to be as comfortable magnetised to a fridge, as they are protected in a frame or collectors folder.
The print, including border, has a dimension of 29.7cm W x 21cm H (A4).
Paper: Traditional Japanese Washi Torinoko.
Camera: Canon 5Dr II (Digital).
Handling Remarks: This print may have small ink marks at the corners. This occurs during the printing process due to particular qualities in paper thickness and paper curvature. These marks are left as they fall and seen as the influence of external forces that exert themselves on the creative process. They are the qualities of life, that require all things to retain a certain unpredictability, and individuality beyond the intentions of mind and mechanical process.
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Extended Description.
Perception is double sided. If India reveals anything, it is this. No matter the tragedy we find ourselves in, our perception transmutes matter into a mentality of beauty or suffering.
In one regard, these two girls are lost to the chaos of street-life, toxicity, and a fear and danger many of us will never come close to experiencing. But still, the girls sit idle. Peaceful. I watch them for a short time, no parents, no friends nearby. They work oblivious to the world around them. Calmly, and diligently they continue to plait their flowers in a pile of shit. I find this profoundly frightening and simultaneously beautiful.
What incredible power our minds hold to transmute our circumstances into mental states that supersede our physical conditions. While the object circumstances these children are in is horror, do they know it? Possibly their ignorance is salvation from such tragedy? But… I do not think this to be the case. I refuse to see such a state of mind as anything less than Nobel, and Masterful. Unconscious, perhaps. Surely such Nobel minds are headed for Svarga Loka, and beyond to Moksha.
Two girls in a gutter; two Nobel minds in the temple of life.
