Artwork Collection

01 For Jurying Consideration

We look to faith when we have no answers, only to find that divinity is everywhere. In union, in dirt, debris, sand and ash; in paint, on canvas, in our joined hands, in our momentary senses and our eternal dances. Not even our strongest, most precious Goddesses and Gods are immune to erasure nor mutation. So my fleshy, sweaty hands pry apart holy text and put it in my mouth, to soften it with my drool and spit, just to regurgitate it into my hands and transmute my bile into belief.

Divinity Hindu Philosophy Birth Maintenance Destruction Cycles Wildness Mutation

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1. REPRESSED RHYTHM

What you want to escape from might be the very thing you’re supposed to run toward. ‘Repressed Rhythm’ is about the inescapable cycles we desperately try to ‘escape’ like hamsters on a wheel. When running, watch what you trample and suffocate.

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2. BLIZZARD

LOST IN A FRIGID SEA, ‘BLIZZARD’ EXPLORES THE DESPERATE NEED TO BREAK FREE, AND SATURATE.

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3. UNION

Running doesn’t get you as far as reaching might. I’d grow more fingers if it meant I might reach you faster, bind us sooner, and let us bask in the glow of the divine.

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4. WILD GODS

From left to right, top to bottom: (Each piece is dual-sided, with the mirrored side pictured below the presented side.) TRIMURTI: CREATOR, DESTROYER, PRESERVER THE DIVINE MAHAVIDYAS: MAA MATANGI, MAA KALI, MAA KAMALIKA

Work by

Kyra Kaushal

Transdisciplinary Painting

“Divinity is everywhere,In union, in dirt, debris, sand and ash; in paint, on canvas, in our joined handsIn our momentary senses and our eternal dances.”