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The Mahavidya Collection was an interesting challenge for me. To produce a series of visual images that use symbolic form and colour to represent and embody powerful and provocative traditional philosophical and metaphysical system is no light matter.
Initially I was hesitant, even though I have been fascinated with the Mahavidyas for many years-since coming across them at college and then basing some of my postgraduate pieces on the concepts contained within the philosophy. How does one dare represent a trans-human, Universal force?
But then I realised that no matter how potent, alien or bizarre these energies seemed to be, I was as utterly familiar with them as every other being in existence is, simply because they are, at every level, the substance and mechanics of Life itself.
The Mahavidya (Great Wisdom) sees all existence as perturbations within a perfect, endless Night . It is like medieval Indian seers using poetical and symbolic image to describe the Superstring Theory! Dark Energy, Dark Matter, Black holes, super galaxy clusters, bubble universes all presented as powerful, intimidating, scary goddesses. Scary only because they have no desire to conform to human mental limitations and social niceties.
It's like non-conformist, visionary Hinduism mixed with the wildest of Himalayan tantra - like punk bursting onto the disco scene in the 70's!
Chinnamasta, The Fifth Night of Transcendent Knowledge, The Power of the Thunderbolt, The Dance of Existence, (also known
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