“O Cosmic Silence, I hear thy voice through the murmur of brooks, the song of the nightingale, the sounding of conch shells, the beat of ocean waves and the hum of vibrations”. –
“Metaphysical Meditation” (PY.)
Waves Album is about vibrations that connect souls with souls, creativity with creativity ultimately to merge with cosmic harmony. It is a journey to find oneself and to understand how the ‘I’ can connect with ‘you’ to become ‘we’ and how all become one with Him, the Supreme Artist, the Divine. The musical vibrations of Bhairav create images that find expression through paintings and dance choreography. Bhairav is dedicated to Shiva and there are two references to Kaivalya Upanishad in this presentation. The rest of the texts are an explanation of the divine messages in the course of the journey. As the spiritual journey begins, through conversations with the divinity, one drowns oneself in the ecstasy of love that beckons through meditation. The inner cosmos opens up with the awakening of the soul for the traveler on his/her chosen path to self-realization. There are six raagas in this album. Bhairav is the first creative exploration of this spiritual journey. With the break of dawn and opening of the chakras and the third eye, the sacred vision impels to Divine Romance. SOME POINTS ABOUT THIS VISUAL STORYTELLING: The musical meditations of the raga as a homage to Shiva, blend with the painting of the bhairavi in her spiritual journey through the third eye to Kedarnath in the Himalayas, and then to the sacred cave in her innermost chamber of worship. The journey, the cave, the sound of the water mingling with the musical notes, form a symbolical pattern. The bhairavi is deliberately chosen to be a young dancer, whose innocence is the prime focus in her postures in the choreography, worshipping Shiva. Soul awakening does not depend on the maturity of the body, and a child in her innocence can also be a bhairavi in her love for the divine. The choreography focuses on purity and childlike joy in finding divine love. The idea of the beginning of a sacred romance is meant to blend with the dawn of understanding and a child bhairavi. Paintings have been repeated with highlighted areas in animation, as the process of meditation itself is based on the churning of the self and getting a clearer vision of the divine as one wants to see Him concretize in the spiritual eye. The subject (the Bhairav as Shiva) and the worshipper (bhairavi) merge together in ecstasy as the shlokas in Kaivalya Upanishad would explain. So the repetition of the second painting focussing once on shiva and then on the devotee and the canvas in its entirety the first time it appears and as a conclusion is deliberate to suggest this spiritual churning. The first painting in sketches, and then as colours are added till it is completed with the music are a part of the psycho-spiritual creative journey. The aesthetics of the narrative is meant to weave all the strands of creativity together to form a “we” as mentioned earlier, which is to melt into the idea of ‘Shivoham’.