“Just a few words to provide context to this series of sculptures that has taken me these past five years in India to bring to life.

  “The urge and effort to seek is so quintessentially human, particularly when directed towards spiritual goals – towards profound understanding and its power to transform. This aspect of the human condition has long been of great interest to me.

  “This series – ‘The Seekers’ formed within and is an extension of the ‘Silent Witnesses’ – a sculptural series that I began in the U.S. in the early ‘90’s, and which I have explored and expressed in a variety of materials (papier-mâché, copper and brass, terracotta, stoneware, bell-metal and bronze).

  “To become silent and to open-mindedly witness is so basic to spiritual seeking. That was the focus of The Silent Witnesses. But in The Seekers, the androgynous, robe-wrapped figures have become more expressive of the inner experiential textures of the spiritual journey. The First Seeker is in outer stillness and in the experience of uplifting joy that is inherent in true silent witnessing. Then, the series progresses to explore other moments of the journey: the seekers begin to move, to interact. Some seem to speak, some listen and others to see beyond – all moments in the spiritual journey that have a kind of grace, when an interconnection is felt, or an insight forms which integrates our world of outer and inner being.

  “The series ends with hints and appearances of transformation in the form and energy of being that has so powerfully been symbolized in the Indian traditions in mandalas and yantras.

  “Perhaps, this is not the end as new forms have arrived in my imagination. But these twelve sculptures of thirteen seekers do form a complete garland for the present and I wish to share them with you.”

Here, The Seekers are presented individually and collectively. Click on the images for a larger view.

The Seekers