underpinnings

images from the tip of india posted here.

i write from beautiful kovalam. we had our doshas read by an ayurvedic doctor who sentenced jim to prison food and punishment while perri's prescription was something like divine debauchery. perhaps we should get a second opinion. the holistic analysis did get me thinking about the underpinnings of life in south india. the food...so delicious and wild but based on a tried and true system of ancient medicine to balance the spicy and sour, sweet and salty. it has me thinking about monsoon (wherever it is...) as the structure within the storm's expression...and kolams as being less about the serpentine lines of the gesture and more about the dot structure...the constellation that the contour steers by. 3-5-7-5-3 or 2-4-2. without the clarity of math, there would be no lines to the labyrinth. from here, that idea feels like it could make a good painting. but only after my daily dose of bacon.