tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73850625821910670532024-03-13T11:20:03.747-07:00Jyoti Art AshramThe Art Ashram is situated in Silvepura Village, North Bangalore, where the Sahi Family have been living since 1972. There are a number of facilities at the Art Ashram for creative expressions, and groups have been coming to use the studios, and learn from the various skills of the Sahi Family.Jyoti Sahi Art Ashramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077509402515258661noreply@blogger.comBlogger363125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385062582191067053.post-61561609600680800282012-09-25T06:23:00.003-07:002012-09-25T06:23:56.986-07:00Tshe Village of Woolsery,<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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In the village of Woolsery where Eric Lott attended the local church as a child, I made a sketch of the Church of All Hallows. It is here in the graveyard of the Church that the parents of Eric, and other friends and relatives are buried.</div>
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In August 2012 I accompanied Rev.Dr. Eric Lott and his wife Christine to the village in Devon where Eric was brought up as a child working on his family farm. Visiting this part of Devon was for me a very interesting experience as it helped me to understand better the world in which Eric discovered his spiritual quest, which finally brought him to live in a remote village environment in Andhra Pradesh.</div>
Jyoti Sahi Art Ashramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077509402515258661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385062582191067053.post-86675414594468738752012-09-24T05:07:00.001-07:002012-09-24T05:07:04.594-07:00Worship and Play in a secular world.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The village Church viewed from the playground near the village green.<br />
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Nearby Church of Saxelby, where I attended a village feast.<br />
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In a service led by Eric Lott in a nearby Church, he explored the meaning of the text "Allow the Children to come to me"--which has been a theme that seems to appear often in the context of a society where play in the form of sports seems to have an even more important role in cultural life than prayer. Religion is often thought of as something essentially joyless, a duty that has to be performed, out of fear of a God who seems to often forbid the very things that give us pleasure. This could be the legacy of a very puritanical understanding of religion, which seems not to celebrate the body, and all that the senses enjoy. The child in all of us is essentially playful. This has certainly been an important aspect of Hindu thought, where Creation is understood as arising out of the Divine playfulness. As an artist I feel that this is something we need to re-discover.</div>
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Eric Lott, ordained in the Church of South India, often exercises his priestly role in the local Church of Old Dalby. There are also other small Churches scattered in the folds of the hills and woodlands of this part of the country. These often go back a thousand years. Even though British society is now very secularized, there is a sense of belonging to this very English form of cultural life, where the local Church still acts as a focal point. The building is part of the landscape, and has acted as an axis around which community life in the countryside has revolved over many centuries.</div>
Jyoti Sahi Art Ashramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077509402515258661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385062582191067053.post-79368939021097918442012-09-24T04:42:00.002-07:002012-09-24T04:42:51.935-07:00An English Village: Old Dalby near Melton Mowbray.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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View of Dalby in the Wold (Old Dalby)</div>
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The village of Old Dalby in Leicestershire, where my old friends Eric and Chris Lott live, has been a place where I have been welcomed over the past twenty years. Here I have been able to reflect on the relation of the traditional village of the midlands to the landscape. In fact the town from which my own Mother came, and the part of England where here ancestors have been settled over generations, is not far away from this village. And so over the years I have felt very much part of this landscape, which however is very different from the landscape around my home in Karnataka, in South India. How can I find links between this landscape and the culture that it has given rise to, rooted on this soil, and my own Indian context ?</div>
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During my recent travels in the U.K. I tried to record some of my impressions in the sketch book that I carry with me. In a sense this journey has been a continuation of my earlier expedition in the Wyanad not so far from my home in a village near to Bangalore. That trip I kept an account of under the title "Honey Gatherers". The concept of food gathering, which goes back to our ancient migrant cultures can be understood in a new way as we become Global citizens. Travelling abroad has always been a source of inspiration to writers, painters, and others for whom crossing boundaries both geographic and cultural is an enriching experience. In the following images I hope to express some of my own thoughts related to travelling abroad, and also to finding new ways of discovering the spirit of a place.</div>
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The mystic poet Kabir (15th Century) navigates the waters that flow between different Faith traditions. He is neither a Muslim, nor a Hindu; and yet he draws insights from both these great spiritual ways. His vessel is like a seed, which goes between the different worlds or religious language.</div>Jyoti Sahi Art Ashramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077509402515258661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385062582191067053.post-42076164131312135432012-07-01T10:55:00.000-07:002012-07-01T10:55:08.424-07:00The Soul carrier<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Hamsa carries the soul across the waters. The bird is itself like a seed, in which the human being is enclosed, ready to be born into another world.</div>Jyoti Sahi Art Ashramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077509402515258661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385062582191067053.post-89102090428214486332012-07-01T10:50:00.001-07:002012-07-01T10:50:32.448-07:00The Call of the Bird<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Bird of the Spirit is also the Word. It is like the letter AUM. The call of the bird is the cosmic cry which echoes through the whole of creation.</div>Jyoti Sahi Art Ashramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077509402515258661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385062582191067053.post-5789234701296815792012-07-01T10:47:00.000-07:002012-07-01T10:47:11.152-07:00Bird crossing boundaries<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Kabir often speaks of the migrant bird which crosses all earthly boundaries. This is the Hamsa, the mythical bird that flieis over the Himalayas, to visit the plains of India. But this white bird calls all creatures to another land where there are no divisions, no light as opposed to darkness.</div>Jyoti Sahi Art Ashramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077509402515258661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385062582191067053.post-9959059575758858782012-07-01T10:42:00.004-07:002012-07-01T10:42:54.075-07:00THE COSMIC TREE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Bird represents an aspect of the migrant self. In the Upanishads we hear of two birds that are found in the tree: one bird is active, feeding on the fruit of the tree, while the other bird is contemplative, remaining as a witness of what is happening in the world of phenomena. </div>Jyoti Sahi Art Ashramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077509402515258661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385062582191067053.post-67775926220841442972012-07-01T10:38:00.001-07:002012-07-01T10:38:41.645-07:00The Bird of the Spirit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Mythical birds are an important aspect of folk mythology. The bird is related to the vegetation, and is found in the tree of life.</div>
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The Hamsa is a mythical bird which is supposed to cry "Ham-sa-ham-sa" as it crosses the high peaks of the Himalayas. This cry of the migrant swan is an affirmation "I am that", and is a manifestation of the Word, which is also the mystic sound AUM, that echoes in the heart of the cave which is within the mountain.</div>
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The mystic bird who is often referred to by Kabir as the Hamsa, is a symbol of the spirit or the soul of the searcher. This bird crosses over all boundaries, flying from this world which we experience with our senses, to another world or desh, which is an inner landscape. The bird is itself like a seed that takes wing, and finally takes root in another land of the spirit.</div>
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The spiritual language of Santh Kabir is full of mysterious opposites. A bird which belongs to another world, like the Persian image of Phoenix, is coming from the land where there is no sun or moon. This bird of the heavens comes down to the earth, where it meets the serpent which also symbolizes the waters that lie hidden in the depths of the soil. In the songs of Kabir heaven and earth meet in what he often refers to as the "Gagan Mandala", the circle that embraces what is above and what is below in the fiery egg, or germ of life.</div>
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The image of the inverted tree which we find in the Upanishads, can also be related to an up-side-down language, used by mystics, that apparently seems to be illogical. The external tree which we observe with our senses, can be compared to a spring of life which comes up from the depths of the earth. The leaves of this tree are like fishes. </div>
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There are two aspects of Kabir the Poet. One is the active external self, which lowers Kabir the inner poet, to discover the source of inspiration within the depths of his own being. This inner Kabir is enclosed within a pot which is itself overflowing. From this inner space of the well, a tree of life is growing.</div>Jyoti Sahi Art Ashramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077509402515258661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385062582191067053.post-15120679946914121712012-07-01T10:01:00.001-07:002012-07-01T10:01:29.539-07:00Kabir Dreaming<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The image of Santh Kabir dreaming relates to an inner journey. Kabir is himself like a well. The image of the up-side-down tree is to be found in the Upanishads. Here this inverted tree is related to the concept of a plant that grows up from the depths, like a spring of water welling up from within Kabir's own dreaming body.</div>Jyoti Sahi Art Ashramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077509402515258661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385062582191067053.post-46109359802861095992012-05-28T23:46:00.000-07:002012-05-28T23:46:04.876-07:00EARTH AS THE BODY OF GOD.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Already from far away, we are drawn by the image of the Holy Mountain. It is like the spire of a Temple, or a Cathedral. Symbolically, it is the axis of the universe. Everything seems to be drawn towards this focal point. The road seems to draw us towards the mountain. For me the landscape is always a spiritual sign. The landscape reminds us that the spiritual reality has to be incarnated into the every-day, embodied in the forms that we see around us. The earth is the body of God.</div>Jyoti Sahi Art Ashramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077509402515258661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385062582191067053.post-30947129225087207212012-05-28T23:38:00.003-07:002012-05-28T23:38:57.377-07:00THE MOUNTAIN OF SPRING AND SUMMER<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The Holy Mountain has a personality of its own, that reminds us of the different moods that colour each person's character. In a way these different faces of the mountain relate to the different seasons of the year. The mountain reflects the colours of the sky, but also the different shades that predominate in the terrestrial landscape When the fields are dry, and the soil has the warm flesh like folds of the human body, then the mountain seems to lift these naked barren aspects of the soil, like a voice crying to the flaming sky . Everything burns with the passionate spirit of spring and summer.</div>Jyoti Sahi Art Ashramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077509402515258661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385062582191067053.post-88434869666311112722012-05-28T23:28:00.001-07:002012-05-28T23:28:17.412-07:00THE MOUNTAIN BEYOND THE SHRINE<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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There is a relationship between the mountain and the shrine The shrine is like a window through which we can see and understand the significance of the mountain. In a way, the shrine represents the microcosm--it is on the human scale of the worshipper The mountain, on the other hand is like a finger that points to a cosmic dimension. Here the shrine is dedicated to Ganapathi who is the guardian of the fields. He is a popular deity who speaks to the hearts of the peasants who work the land around the base of the mountain. Seen from one angle, one can notice that the form of the mountain is not unlike that of the seated, earthy figure of Ganapati.</div>
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The Mountain can be circumambulated. In that way it is like a primordial sculpture, which can be seen from different angles as we approach it from different perspectives. But the landscape that is related to the mountain also reminds us of the different seasons. It is the link between earth and sky. In the mountain we see how the moods of the sky effect the different moods of the landscape, and particularly the fields that lie at the base of the mountain. This images tries to picture the season of rains, when the great rock that points up towards the sky, becomes the recipient of the gift of life giving waters that flow down to irrigate the land beneath the mountain. This in fact is the basis for the ancient myth of the way in which the Shiva gave the Ganga to renew the earth which was parched as a result of a terrible drought The myth of the 'descent of the River Ganges' is represented in one of the earliest monolythic masterpieces of Indian Classical art on the rock face of the temple complex on the seashore at Mahaballipuram</div>
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Shiva Ganga, the Holy Mountain that is not far from where we live in Silvepura, is a place that we have often visited as a family, and I have represented it in landscapes based on views of the mountain taken from different sides This face of the mountain is related, according to local tradition, to the image of Ganapatti, the Lord of earth spirits (Ganas) who are associated with the Hindu deity Shiva. In fact from ancient times Shiva has been associated with mountains, and storms. In that way Shiva can be compared to the ancient Hebrew belief in the archangel Michael, who is also often linked to the manifestation of the Divine that takes place on mountains, like Mount Sinai in the Biblical tradition.</div>Jyoti Sahi Art Ashramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07077509402515258661noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7385062582191067053.post-71294730231335489592012-05-28T20:13:00.000-07:002012-05-28T20:13:09.161-07:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
A group interested in the forest as having a language of its own, went into the forest in Wyanad to gather impressions. These were given form through poetry, but also installations, using objects that had been gathered from the forest.<br />
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<span lang="EN-IN">I can’t hold</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"> The
shadows and the sunlight,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"> The
spaces and the stillness ,</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"> The
slight stir of movement</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"> Or
the sounds of falling ripeness.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"> I
can’t hold</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"> The
order of disorder</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"> And the mingling of meetings</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"> Layer
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<span lang="EN-IN"> Side
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<span lang="EN-IN"> I
gather just some syllables</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"> That
alone mean nothing</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"> But
when together</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"> Sing
a world.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IN"> Jane</span></div>
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<b>A workshop was held in the Wyanad on the way in
which language uses metaphors derived from the landscape. We met in the home of
Baby and Shirly, and a short walk from their home were paddy fields leading
down to a stream. On the other side of the stream was the forest. This movement
from cultivated land to the forest wilderness has been understand in Indian
thought as the distinction between Nadu and Kadu. Visually it was the contrast of open spaces
with the vertical pattern of fields leading down to the stream, and on the
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