Eighteen Chapters is a series of paintings and drawings that are a response to the various parts of the Bhagvad Gita. A holy book of the Hindus, the Bhagvad Gita is comprised of verses divided into eighteen chapters.
The eighteen paintings visually echo the dissonance between mind and matter, right and wrong, and mortality and immortality- themes that persist through the length of the book. These conflicts of mind and matter are translated as a discourse between darkness and light, weight and airiness, opacity and translucence.
The Eighteen Chapters series is created on paper and canvas in a variety of mediums: acrylic, watercolor, pastel, graphite and ink.
watercolor on paper
19”L x 21”W
acrylic and oil pastels on paper
28”L x 36”W
acrylic, watercolor and ink on paper
22”L x 30”W
graphite on paper
23”L x 36”W
acrylic and pastel on paper
28”L x 22” W
pastel on paper
28”L x 19” W
watercolor on paper
19”L x 23”W
black ink on paper
19”L x 25”W
acrylic on paper
28”L x 22”W
acrylic and pastel on paper
26”L x 34”W
graphite on paper
15”L x 22”W
graphite on paper
18”L x 23”W
graphite on paper
16”L x 22”W
acrylic on paper
26”L x 22”W
acrylic and watercolor on paper
18”L x 14”W
watercolor on Paper
16”L x 22”W
watercolor, acrylic and pastel on paper
22”L x 40”W
watercolor on paper
18”L x 14”W