Uranus

Acrylic on cut paper, assembled on Khadi paper 650gsm, 56x76 cm.

In the context of my work on cosmological themes, I decided to create a series for the planets individually, so they could be seen as individual bodies in their own right. This should have been 7 planets, up to Saturn, but leaving it at that disturbed me. It occurred to me then that perhaps the system could be updated. And why shouldn’t it? All living traditions evolve; it’s only when they fall into disuse that they freeze in a given state. If the geocentric system had been preserved as a symbolic system till our day, it is no stretch to imagine that each new planetary discovery would have been greeted as a significant event, a new revelation from the heavens, and that the planet would have taken its place in the cosmic mandala. This did not happen, but creative imagination can fill in. I would, then, complete our solar system for this art series... Full description of this project here.