Ash .

The Yoni, Coolie and Ash

Painting
2023
Acrylic and Sari on Stretched Canvas
5' x 3'
This work is a definitive anti-colonial and feminist piece. Challenging the western view of sexuality and the sexualization of women. with inspiration and references from my, anti-colonial, moderately untouched by the Western world religion - Hinduism. In contrast to the western world’s concentration and recurring set-in-stone examples of the Virgin Mary, Aphrodite, etc, as normative images of the ‘divine feminine’. In this piece I recognize Adi Shakti (Hinduism's Supreme Goddess)as MY divine feminine, and I’d like to state that she is within every Coolie gyal, as she is a representation of the best qualities in women. Creation, Passion, and Power.

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The Yoni, Coolie and Ash
The Yoni, Coolie and Ash
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2023, BHARAT DARSHANA
Open Space Gallery, OCAD University, Toronto, ON

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Ash . aka. Ashmitha Kunasingam

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