For me this inner quest has become the dominant theme in 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 consciousness has been labeled tantric art. In other cultures it is called visionary art, or intuitive art. Paul Klee noted that “an artist neither serves nor rules – he transmits”. What is the subject matter of the transmission? An artist of this calling begins to be aware of the subtle body, of the sukshma sharira, and of the process of consciousness becoming aware of subtler structures in the apparently physical world. The emphasis is in what sees, not in what is seen. x

The symbol of the bindu, the point, is used to signify infinity, the vast reality of consciousness manifesting in the single point of individual awareness. My interest in this came as a compulsion, coming out of my meditation practice. I became intensely interested in the sri charka, how to make one, what it means. I saw broken rocks with another rock inside, pieces of wood with a hole in them, round bird's nests and looking up from under coconut trees saw a mandala with the trunk the bindu point in the center. The signs were everywhere. At the same time came the awareness of kundalini, of shakti, all of these wonderful concepts used to signify the flow of the unnamable inner energies that accompany the opening of the inner world. I entered into the bindu.

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