Cosmic magnification

The painting represents a human figure of normal build but the height that it gains is in the form of mounting squares, which in Tantra denote spatial regions, and thereby the figure’s cosmic magnification. The entire figure is divided into three broad divisions symbolising three worlds. The lower part, comprising alternating white and red cubes, reveals horizontality, the character of the world below. A circle constitutes figure’s middle part. It is so divided that it forms triangular divisions – almost the interacting inverted and upright triangles and a dot, symbolic of Shiva-Shakti union, within. This is the stage of ‘divine-leela’, the earth. Above it are vertically mounting cubes and over them a face and the sentiment of quiescence on it. Its spiral rise is symbolic of the void above, and the face, of the Cosmic Consciousness. Various forms, human, animal and vegetation, represented in the central strip, symbolise presence of life in concerned regions.