Faculty of Art

Drawing and Painting

Ash .

The Yoni, Coolie and Ash

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.