A Curious Fetish: Mandalas of a Secretive Mind

A CURIOUS FETISH

mANDALAS oF A sECRETIVE mIND

rAJU pEDDADA

In a bizarre and surreal world where, We negotiate with those who don't; We don't identify the enemy we fight; We destroy forests to fatten pork & beef; We still allow genital mutilation; We still don't have a female president; We allow savages into civil societies; We spend more on surveillance than on science; We credit IQ than intuition; We are diplomatic with the despots; I find ample escape, relief and sanity, in plying the paper, with my mental sulfur. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Raju Peddada

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A Curious Fetish: Mandalas of a Secretive Mind

Published on Oct 5, 2015

RPeddada

Summery: The artist-author, over the years, had drawn scores of these ciphered, highly personal and contrasting images, as a visual catharsis for the “itches” he couldn't scratch. These itches were also capricious or calculated mental flashes, on issues ranging from American politics to Assyrian monuments being destroyed, or from Stendhal, to skateboarding and sex. But, For the most part, the images are a celebration of womanhood: their indispensable sexuality, awesome intuition and adaptive prowess. Images were deliberately drawn on black paper with silver ink, as a state of his mind, which saw issues only as black and white: truths or lies... hence, they are stark, yet, coded in high contrast, and provocative. Peddada's drawings were intensely private, it was only after a greeting (drawing) he sent me that I came to know about these astonishing, stark and powerful drawings -- scores of them he had drawn over the years. To be release in 2016

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