Archival Note Card | Tantra - #6

A red figure with many arms and little blue and white faces perches on a grey-blue ground.

This is an archival note card from the Tantra series titled Deliverance of the Red 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 bright red body with raised arms holds snakes and small ritual objects, topped by a crown and a cluster of tiny heads. A lotus-like flower sits at the center. A red border with a yellow inner line frames the scene. It is 5 inches long and 7 high.

Red and grey, an assertive pairing that never apologises.