Ganesha with Consort circa 1825. Kangra, India. Pahari painting. 18 x 15 cm ️ National Museum, New Delhi
Four armed Ganesh is seated on a lotus against a big cushion with his wife. His upper right and left hands are holding axe and spear, while from lower left hand he is holding his consort and from the lower right hand eating a laddu (modaka) from a plate held by his consort. In the foreground, left and right corner a bowl of fruits and golden utencils of water are kept. Lord Ganesh and his wife have a halo behind their heads. (viaMuseums of India - National Portal and Digital Repository)
We just got in at Ormond Beach, FL. On the way to our hotel we were passing the We Are Yoga studio and had the inspiration to strike a pose. Great start to WAYcationOB !
This is incredible!! This is from the book written by Dr. Tony Nader, who trained in Harvard and MIT. He has written another book where he correlates the entire Ramayana, with the Human Physiology.
Pillaiyarpatti Vinayaka rock-cut temple was built by the early Pandiya kings. The image of Pillaiyarpatti Pillaiyar and a Shiva Lingam were carved out of a single stone by a sculptor named Ekkattur Koon Perundachchan who put his signature on the stone inscription in Brahmi script.
This script was used between 2nd and 5th century. It can be concluded that the icon of Pillaiyarpatti Pillaiyar must have been carved around 4th century AD.
Thank you to everybody who entered the competition - we’ve had hundreds of entries and have finally picked a winner who will receive one of these limited edition, signed prints!
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I never looked at Ganesha as an actual deity. I may get some heat for this, but for me personally, I loved the idea of obstacles being trampled down like distant memories instantly forgotten. He was an extension of the fabric that connects us all. I am not any one religion, but I believe in kindness, compassion, love, and our own truth. Other people do not need to get it, I feel peaceful about it.
Painting Ganesh was the best way for me to concentrate on overcoming. It wasn’t any actual aspect of success, it was simply achieving the goals set before me. Sometimes larger, and almost insurmountable, such as the reason I spent so many years separated from everyone and I everything I loved. There were days I could only handle one moment at a time. I couldn’t see beyond that week, that day, or that year.
While I was gone, I kept going back to painting spiritual pieces including Ganesh to direct my focus to the walls being broken down, and allowing this time in my life to pass without too much trauma. I often felt like a complete outcast. It was difficult to relate to anyone else, and I didn’t trust people who claimed to be friends.
Ganesh represented crawling out from oppression and living life on my own terms. I would meditate and imagine him floating through my mind, and changing into the wisps of relaxing thought and relief. I painted with this as my visual mantra…, my constant repetition of “This will not last”. Walls crumbled in my mind, and all I thought about was freedom. I painted Ganesh, and with each painting I did I visualized healing, returning home, being loved by people without fear, and being restored.
I believe as long as we look outward, and upward to more than ourselves, our ego, and materialism we are improving our souls. He is a reminder of rising above it all. He is the reminder that I succeeded in changing my reality, that this was something I could do if I just stayed resolute and believe.
This 1/1 NFT is special, a visual meditation of what I would think in my darkest hours. I collaborated with the team from Libeskind Arts on this, with music, with gentle fades in and out. You will not see it on my Foundation.app main page, it is however listed if you click “Splits”. Winning bidder will receive an HD image of the original painting . The link to the page follows at the bottom of this post.
Libeskind Arts was created in 2021 by a diverse group of artists, animators, musicians and technologists from around the world, in order to explore the realm of digital art, and how the eternal secrets of Form can inspire new artistic processes and historical connections.
Explored the rice fields today. If you look close you can see my new Ganesh pendant from the market. #ganesh #ricepaddies #anjalimudra (at Rice Paddies Ubud)
