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.
![Chapter1](https://geetamani.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/chapter1.jpg)
watercolor on paper
19”L x 21”W
![Chapter 02](https://geetamani.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/chapter_02-e1635794612220.jpg)
acrylic and oil pastels on paper
28”L x 36”W
![Chapter 3](https://geetamani.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Chapter-3-scaled-e1635794491721-1024x727.jpg)
acrylic, watercolor and ink on paper
22”L x 30”W
![Chapter 04](https://geetamani.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/chapter_04-scaled-e1635794557875-1024x667.jpg)
graphite on paper
23”L x 36”W
![Chapter 5](https://geetamani.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Chapter-5-796x1024.jpg)
acrylic and pastel on paper
28”L x 22” W
![Chapter 06](https://geetamani.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/chapter_06-738x1024.jpg)
pastel on paper
28”L x 19” W
![Chapter 7](https://geetamani.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Chapter-7-1024x812.jpg)
watercolor on paper
19”L x 23”W
![Chapter 8](https://geetamani.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Chapter-8-1024x701.jpg)
black ink on paper
19”L x 25”W
![Chapter 9](https://geetamani.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Chapter-9-736x1024.jpg)
acrylic on paper
28”L x 22”W
![Chapter 10](https://geetamani.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/chapter_10-scaled-e1635797039320-1024x792.jpg)
acrylic and pastel on paper
26”L x 34”W
![Chapter 11](https://geetamani.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/chapter11-1024x721.jpg)
graphite on paper
15”L x 22”W
![Chapter 12](https://geetamani.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Chapter-12-1024x697.jpg)
graphite on paper
18”L x 23”W
![chapter 13 full](https://geetamani.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Chapter13-1024x682.jpg)
graphite on paper
16”L x 22”W
![Chapter 14](https://geetamani.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Chapter-14-683x1024.png)
acrylic on paper
26”L x 22”W
![Chapter 15](https://geetamani.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Chapter-15-1024x683.jpg)
acrylic and watercolor on paper
18”L x 14”W
![Chapter 16](https://geetamani.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Chapter-16-scaled-e1635794442645-1024x647.jpg)
watercolor on Paper
16”L x 22”W
![Chapter 17 Corrected](https://geetamani.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/chapter_17_correct-1024x574.jpg)
watercolor, acrylic and pastel on paper
22”L x 40”W
![Chapter 18](https://geetamani.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Chapter-18-741x1024.jpg)
watercolor on paper
18”L x 14”W