Hemant Sonawane - AUM SERIES
Painting
The ‘Aum’ theme of therapeutic paintings typically uses sedate and deep colours.
Nevertheless, when concentrated upon for a while, it is only the bright light at the core, that sustains attention... and the surrounding dullness dissolves into oblivion.
This bright light is ‘Aum’, the powerful Mantra. Aum helps in focussing the mind during meditation, doesn't allow you to get distracted. That is the power of Aum.
It gathers together the equanimity of the observer and helps in summoning the forces of the mind in today’s global scenario of imbalance of powers.
A work of Acrylic on Canvas, this series was an instant sell-out during its first exhibition held at the Nehru Art Gallery, Mumbai - India in 2006. The artist seeks to transform this hugely popular series into three-dimensional form as an installation art.