Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Whither Divinity


one with tranquil visage
astride any one of your creatures
extolled for your virtue and beauty
how do you manage
to remain unavailable

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Bhashwati Sengupta wrote:

The departing divinity in your photo is planning to jump off the edge on the other end of that cold stony expanse saying, tumharai hai tumi sambhaalo ye duniya.

The image is all of a piece.
The angular curves and the curving angles (including the angle of the lifted knee), hemmed in by a cluster of bushes on one end and a clutch of flowers in a bun.
The erect form of the woman is like a personification of the resolute strength of the rock under her feet. It would be safe to assume from the glare of light that her unshod feet could be burning. Instead of rokto maakha choron eyi mohila ogni pothe ekla cholechhe.

Apropos the text, the stony jagged expanse looks to me like an amphitheatre designed by nature for non human deliberations and divinity being a concoction of human consciousness will 'naturally' have no place here. Being available here is not even an option for gods, their spouses, their messengers or their semi divine and semi human agents. 
Thank you for the expanse.

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