Transcriptions #30: Om Namah Shivaya
Transcriptions #30: Om Namah Shivaya
12" x 12" x 3/4”
Original mixed media painting on canvas
Om Namah Shivaya is one of the most popular Hindu mantras. It is a dedication to Lord Shiva, considered a benevolent, auspicious, and Supreme Deity in Hinduism.
Before I began this painting, I knew I wanted to do something different with the text. I chose to cut strips of the canvas cloth, folding the pieces back so the text would be on the raised folds and the back canvas would show through the cutouts. What better mantra to use but the one with which I have a long history. My daughter was raised with this one.
I created a seam by sewing two pieces of canvas cloth together. Then I began cutting strips with every other one placed on opposite sides of the seam so the folds would lay in both directions. I had painted both sides of the cloth, so at some point the piece was truly reversible… but I liked this way best.
The sides of the canvas are textured and painted to match the rest of the background. The signature and date appear on the side.
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12” x 12” x 3/4”
Original mixed media painting on canvas
Let Us Unite is one of the first paintings in a new series I’m calling “Text-tures.” It has been painted on a piece of canvas cloth with the edges frayed and then attached to a textured but unpainted stretched canvas. Strips of the cloth have been cut and folded down to reveal both the color painted on the reverse side and the back canvas seen through the openings. The folds of painted canvas display the words to a quote by the Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore.
“Let us unite, not in spite of our differences, but through them. For differences can never be wiped away and life would be so much the poorer without them. Let all human races keep their own personalities, and yet come together, not in a uniformity that is dead, but in a Unity that is living.”
The stretched canvas is stapled in the back. It has been signed and dated on the side of the canvas.
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12” x 12” x 3/4”
Original acrylic and canvas cloth painting with thread on canvas
One Door or Another is one of the first paintings in a series I am calling“Text-tures.” It has been painted on a piece of canvas cloth with the edges frayed and then attached to a textured but unpainted stretched canvas. Strips of the cloth have been cut and folded down to reveal both the color painted on the reverse side and the back canvas which is seen through the openings. The folds of painted canvas display the words to a quote by the Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore.
“If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door - or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.”
The stretched canvas is stapled in the back and it has been signed and dated on the side of the canvas.