Recently, in response to an interest in my art I could barely remember my artistic labor having a Christian component! What happened? Realized now, that I see what I do as catholic — universal. Liberal in embrace and acceptance, not the liberal connotation du jour. I see myself as a Hindu Christian. So Christ crucified on a banyan tree with a baby monkey keeping anguished watch is equally or more relevant to non-Christians. True, it will be seen as Christian, steeped as it is in its realization and rootedness in faith, although it never occurred to me that it was singularly Christian art. In the broadest sense which frighteningly envelope everything, I reflect on ideas at the intersection of religion, sexuality and consciousness. In standing at the crossroads I see as suggested in Jeremiah 6:16: Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein — conduits towards comprehension from various quarters. That is my reading.
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