26. Wisdom Recipe - - Sitting with Seema Kohli

<p>I met Seema Kohli serendipitously at an event in London called The Art of Kindness. <a href="http://artofkindness.co.uk/home/?i=1">http://artofkindness.co.uk/home/?i=1</a> in 2017.</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p>Myth and fable apart, Seema Kohli’s canvases are layered with many, many stories rooted as much in philosophy as in knowledge gained in modern times, a parable of tales both imagined and real, till one can no longer tell the real from the imagined. Art columnist Kishore Singh says “if you look closely at her canvases and the tapestry of motifs unravels into more legends; turn voyeur and the epics are but a background to the unfolding melodramas of daily lives turned epic. She serves up the Upanishads and newspaper headlines in doses of caffeine. It is this that gives her canvases credible status as a chronicler of narratives past and present, Indian in their essence but universal in their context. “I am a mirror,” she says. “When I paint, you see not what I have made but what you want to see.” “I,” Seema Kohli, painter and teller of stories, “am both myth and reality. Pick the one you want, but remember, the mirror distorts, and so the myth might be reality, and reality myth.”</p> <p>Breathing with awareness is what mediation is.</p> <p>Upanishads https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upanishads</p> <p>Ghee lamp - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diya_(lamp)</p> <p>We talk about flowing and flying, you loose that sense of gravity.</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p>A dreamer who seeks the dreams. These dreams get interpreted as my art as images.</p> <p>Instagram @SeemaKohli</p> <p>https://www.seemakohli.com/</p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p>