Archival Note Card | Tantra - #3

A dark central figure grips yellow companions while eyes peer from the base.

This is an archival note card from the Tantra series titled Lovers of the Blue Goddess. It is archival paper. Tantra is a broad family of South Asian Hindu and Buddhist traditions, and tantric painting often uses bold color and simplified symbolic forms to suggest cosmic energy. A blue-black figure with a spiked crown sits in the center, flanked by large yellow forms and small animals hanging at the upper corners. Staring eyes appear at the bottom. A green border surrounds the scuffed, speckled ground. It is 5 inches long and 7 high.

Crowded, intense, and wonderfully direct about it.