Motif India : My Piece of art by Siona Benjamin in the International Art News April / September 2013 !!!!

My Piece of art by Siona Benjamin in the International Art News

Blue Like Me !!!

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Eddna Samuel (Akshikar) is a businesswoman and a single mother. She is portrayed as young and dynamic, dressed in contemporary versions of traditional Indian clothes and pulling back on a golden bow, her arrow released into a thicket of stylized vegetation that echoes but is different from both the circle of vegetal and floral forms upon which she stands and, in a manner distinctly recalling Islamic style (particularly Ottoman Turkish style), stylized vegetal forms repeat in yet another pattern within the interior of the six-pointed star that forms the center of the image.Eddna’s figure repeats in a perfect circle, nine times—a number with layers of symbolic significance, from human pregnancy to the nine dragons in Chinese symbolism to the nine bows in Egyptian symbolism; from the nine muses of ancient Greek thought to the nine chivalric heroes of Medieval European thought to the number of players on an American baseball team. Of course, the number 9 is particularly revered in Hinduism and considered a complete, perfected and divine number because it represents the end of a cycle in the decimal system—which, together with its written form, originated on the Indian subcontinent perhaps 5,000 years ago.

Faces: Weaving Indian Jewish Narratives

Artworks by Siona Benjamin

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya

Formerly The Prince of Wales Museum

Opening Reception: September 30th at 5pm

Curators gallery, First floor,

Exhibition dates: September 30th to October 20th 2013