“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do”– rumi

As I write this, I feel a nudge of a dilemma between heart-art and mind-art or heart-mind-art.

Art as conscious effort or serendipitous…

Art as solitary or community…

Art with goodness or art of madness…

Art as design or design as art…

love as an art or art with love

So many ways in which art is experienced. Often not as opposites but along the spectrum of the same quality of experience.

Art isn’t tangible. Art lies in the subtlety of subjective experience, an awareness it evokes beyond matter.

One doesn’t create art. One arrives at it.

To be art, is to be constantly in the state of art. To be in the state of art, is to be in the state of Practice. To be in Practice is to feel Love. The Union.

“There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving. Be fully aware of what you are doing, and work becomes the Yoga of work, play becomes the yoga of play, everyday living becomes the yoga of everyday living.”

This sari is joined as steadfast stitch of many panels. Each panel highlights the intricate stitching involved in binding textiles of various textures and density together. While retaining the light hearted appeal of the sari, I played with colours of earth, soil and mud, leaves and mulch to pay homage to natural fertility of land.