In recent years I have been actively involved putting up photographic exhibitions. Last year I have put up three on macro photography of flowers with Mother’s spiritual significance and two on the villagers This year I came up with three exhibitions in two months; a fourth one is expected in April. Photography, Photoshop and exhibitions are the space where, shutting off the rest of the world, I return to the centre. Seeking for the way back to the original purity that once was our own, before the great fall; when mind was not split from intuition and the knowledge from within of sacred things directed human life, in a dreamlike state of innocence, harmony and oneness with each and all. The choice of the themes of those exhibitions, dictated from within, is part of that journey: great sadhaks and sadhakas at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram along with children; flowers and grasses as a guide to the psychic being; neighbouring villagers embodying the sacred and the numinous in daily life. And now, the Matrimandir building and its inhabitants—birds and squirrels—displayed in Pitanga until March 5th.
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