Devi - Linga Bhairavi (2015-17)

I finally listened to the long ringing call of wanting to paint and found myself a 24” x 24” white canvas in September 2015. It stayed for weeks in my room with and without its plastic. Then I painted a coat of naphthalene red - one of the acrylic tubes bought about 12 years ago from America. I felt scared, insecure, mind was chattering and demotivating, heart was almost exploding. It lay like that for a week and then I introduced a black ‘form’. Then came the eye - I’ve always sketched an eye and then created a half face around it because any attempt of drawing the other eye would make the face look wonky. So here I removed the left and right and made the one seeing eye. Many sessions happened between traveling, moving house to another state (literally and figuratively) over the next two and a half years and step by step She emerged - Linga Bhairavi Devi. The Divine feminine with the whole world webbed in her hair. She is an embodiment of Grace, Divine Love and Compassion and she showed it to me through her Trishul. It took me a long long time to complete just the center spoke as it just would not get painted as shiny or sharp as the side spokes. I could draw perfectly pointy Trishuls on paper but whenever I took the brush and paints it would just keep getting rounded off. One day I decided to just paint whatever comes in that center portion. Half way through that session emerged the Buddhist Prayer Wheel and my heart just felt a deep sense of warm and melting feeling. My whole body tingled and I wept with love and acceptance of her Divine Love.

Ever since then She has taught me more and more surrender and acceptance. Has slowly removed the veil of mystery from many facets that have intrigued me. Through the paintings She pours her love and intentions and makes me the conduit of her expression. The painting part is just one part of the process. The video and messages also start taking shape in my mind and then there is the process of putting them together to share them with the world.

Just to touch everyone with Divine Light.

With the Grace of Sadhguru and Devi, my creativity is only an unknown endless urge, the content comes through the cosmos.