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Dulari Sumaria



 My practice straddles many dualities and lies at the cusp of action and meditation; the physical and the psychic; the sensual and the spiritual. The process in which I work allows me to enter a space in which opposites merge into a whole which I call the third space. I map this third space through the ritualistic, meditative, condition which I set up for myself: I work in a very calm and composed state of mind and while listening to chants I focus on energy centres, which are junction points between consciousness and the physical body. With my eyes closed, I make repetitive, rhythmic gesture marks with both my hands, using my body measurement as a controlling structural force. With a silent, non-conditioned mind, where the past and the future does not exist, I remain in full awareness of my body movements and the resulting images are like a new language. They resemble Chinese ideograms of pure lines that communicate intimately.The drawing activity becomes physically demanding and yet very joyful. The combination of energy, rhythm, movement and stillness in Eastern mythology suggest the dance of Shiva, which is the consciousness in motion that expresses itself as objects of the universe in eternal dance of life where all life is correlated and interconnected.