Kyra Kaushal

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, PRESERVERTHE DIVINE MAHAVIDYAS: MAA MATANGI, MAA KALI, MAA KAMALIKA

“Hinduism's most revered set of male Gods, the Trimurti, maintain cosmic order. The three stages in creation are birth, maintenance, and destruction. Their tantric mirrors, the divine feminine Mahavidyas, equally powerful and ferocious, have been buried in time.Amalgamating the female body, godly bodies, and wild bodies into my hybrid world is my aim- racing lines of paint and gesture that try to encapsulate our experience of mutating over time- as stories do. Changed by the teller, the listener, external and internal forces at play. I want my art to reflect a confrontation and a dance of a wild, hybrid environment with rigid, equally wild external forces. Putting faces to Gods, regurgitating and transmuting them onto canvas- with beings (my other figures) that aim to do the same thing as personified Gods- convey an idea, and give the viewer the ability to see their faces in theirs. You cannot seperate a face from its mirrored reflection; WILD GODS symbolise the idea that divinity is everywhere, in femininity, in filth, suffering, bliss- the idea of 'purity' is outdated, especially when ferocious female Goddesses stand for not purity, but power. ”