Worlds Within Cloth, New Orders of Woven Making

National Crafts Museum, New Delhi, India
6th August to 19 August 26

Curated by Sreyansi Sing

Inspired by the Folk Revolution in the eleventh century to present and the evolution of type of mantra from the esoteric Vedic Sanskrit era towards localized rural dialects and indigenous systems, all streaming from the unwritten oral culture. Activated by pure inner intent (Bhaav), with an intense focus on receiving and finding expression in regional vernacular, rhyming and forceful folk poetry.

The history of the mantra is a 3,500-year-old or more, evolutionary journey that transformed sound from a collective, sacrificial ritual into a tool for individual awakening, eventually breaking into colloquial language for the common person. Though the word itself originates from the Sanskrit roots Manas (to think, reflect, contemplate – mind ) and Tra (that which serves as an instrument ) literally translating to an “instrument of the mind” which builds an unbreakable grid of protection.

this work “she of the stream, the flowing movement” addresses the feminine energy positioned as the sovereign anchor along the Seven-Fold Matrix. She is revered and celebrated by a strong warrior pantheon of the tradition .