Goddesses and watches - Amanda

A few days ago Steve and Lokesh went out for a walk around the Pol. Along the way they met a man who goes house to house buying bric a brac. Amongst the things on his cart he had a small table and two framed prints of Hindu Goddesses.

Steve bought a print of Bahuchara, Goddess of Castration.



And Lokesh bought an old print of the Goddess Durga



Lokesh went home and remembered a catalogue he hadn't looked at for a long time about a collection of restored oleograph prints produced at Ravi Varma Press. Raja Ravi Varma was a painter (1848 -1906) who according to the catalogue combined Eastern traditons and Western techniques in his paintings of Hindu Gods, Goddesses etc.

Not only is the text of the catalogue written by Esther David, the writer who we bumped into after buying her book, but Lokesh found that inside the catalogue he had carefully placed a print by Mr Gajjar for safe keeping - thus drawing together two coincidences from my previous post.



Once you start tuning into patterns you see them everywhere. Last night we went for dinner with Lokesh and two Swiss friends of his who were visiting Ahmedebad - art historian, ethnologist and former political scientist Marie Alamir and the artist Mali Genest www.maligenest.ch

Mali brought a catalogue of her work for Lokesh. One of the pieces reminds me of the print bought by Lokesh from Mr Gajjar.

Mali Genest's work

Mr Gajjar's print

detail of Mali Genest's work

And then Marie spotted that she and I were wearing the same watch...