The Shiva Portfolio
The Shiva portfolio series can be thought of as meditations on the dance of light. In these photographs, light is pure, architectural, geometric, elegant, and most of all, alive.
As sight has always been connected to the metaphysical – i.e. seeing into the soul, and light from the beginning has been assumed by humans to emanate from a divine sphere, these photographs evoke similar.0000 spiritual realms. Like the bright light that the dying claim to see at the far end of their tunnel vision, these images are characterized by a magical quality that is at once calming and pulsating, like a cosmic force that is beyond control yet also contained by simple forms.
Perfectly balanced against a darkened background, the gyrating light of the Shiva images conduct like anxious energy columns, swirling like a dervish and caught by the camera in mid-transformation."
A.D Coleman, 1998
Joytir, 11x14 silver gelatin print, ed of 7, 1999
Mahadeva, 11x14, 30x40, silver gelatin print, ed of 7, 1999
Tandava, 11x14, 30x40, silver gelatin print, ed of 7, 1999
Shakti, 11x14, 30x40, silver gelatin print, ed of 7, 1999