the eye that sees...

I live in a small town, Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu, South India. I am down here because it is a good place for meditation, for spiritual practice. The holy mountain Arunachala, Ramana Maharshi's ashram and the company of saints and seekers are a potent mix, forcing one to go deeper into one's inner being. In such a place there is no escape from looking into the mind and, more deeply, into awareness. Who is it that is aware of the mind? Who creates? Who perceives?
		The Holy Mountain Arunachala

For me this inner quest has become the dominant theme of my life. As an artist I explore the inner energies encountered in this process. Ironically, there are no forms in the inner world, except those deriving from the innate and archetypical structures of consciousness itself. The need to express the formless with forms becomes a great problem to solve and it is in this difficulty that a gift arrives...the understanding of the value of intuition.

In India the tradition of the artistic exploration of consciousenss has been labeled tantric art. In other cultures it is called visionary or intuitive art. Paul Klee noted that, "an artist neither serves nor rules...he transmits." What is the subject matter of transmission? An aritist of this calling begins to be aware of the subtle body, the sukshma sharira, and of the process of mind becoming aware of subtler structures in the apparently physical world. The emphasis is on what sees, not what is seen.
		Meditation