De Los Angeles gently spins you into another world, one so satisfying that you can spend a long time looking around and enjoying the scenery. These formally simple, abstract meditative aids are made usually by artists who produce only this type of art, not professional miniaturists. Materials are often scavenged, and the pieces are not made to last long, but to be replaced by similar images in a year or two whether used at public temples or home altars. This branch of Hinduism suggests that one can become enlightened in a single lifetime, rather than many, and in a secular setting, rather than a monastic one. This requires meditation and other practices that will liberate the believer from the delusions of life by concentrating on the explosive force of complementary male and female energies.
Sex is one part of the equation.
Feature is selling an untitled work invoking the horrific goddess Kali by an image of her tongues that look as fiery as rows of chili peppers. Other drawings employ circular smears, dots, orbs, and other spare shapes. All date from the last eleven years and come from Rajasthan in northern India. Galerie du Jour agn s b. in Paris, where he has also shown works of this type. Jamme is a poet who has been collecting, investigating and writing about Indian Tantric art for many years.