Shilpa Balakrishnan's avatarThe satori saga

“Art is something about the spirit.. If you want to make something that has a spirit, and speaks to the spirit of other people in the world, you have to touch it, you have to physically address it. if you don’t, if you just farm it out, it becomes a product” – Shary Boyle

Anybody who has truly experienced this cite for real, would completely believe in an art that is close to a persons mind and soul. I believe that the thangka art is one such form that is deeply considered to be bridging a spiritual connection among the deities finding their way to enlightenment. A tad different from the form of oil paint and the mediums I use, the Thanka  is a traditional art form with exhaustive flux of colors and symbols based on Buddhist manuscripts and is no means easy medium for a common man, perhaps a reason artists need to…

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