Seascape
2ft x 4.5ft
water jet etched steel
Bhishma
2ft x 2ft x 4ft
Laser cut folded steel, water jet cut parts, welded
The grand Bhishma loved by all and the greatest of warriors, fallen in battle, lying on the bed of arrows pierced through his body, is a classic image from the ancient Indian epic - the Mahabharata.
The Mahabharata captures the soul and thought and that which was true to the life or real to the creative imagination and ideal mind of ancient India. In fact in some ways it is also characteristic and illuminative of the social, ethical, political and religious culture of India today. The characters in the epic are cherished and living truths and over the millennia the story has served as a means of vivifying the philosophical ideas of the Upanishads and the Vedas and sometimes even to give new development to those ideas as with the Gita - all these are interwoven into an epic narrative with remarkable skill. The epic unravels its complex idea both wide and universal in volume and striking and vivid in detail in an exploration of the Indian idea of Dharma, or the law of being.
