pattern & place: kolam designs of south india: October 2009

attached are images from the exhibition in india and pictures of the finished works...which are now in a large, laminated box in the back of the truck with yak wool shawls laid in between to protect from damage. i can't wait to unpack the paintings. i wonder if a shift in context will change the look and feel of the work. upon departure, i had the felt sense that the paintings should stay in the land where they were made. this yields a question: does the place of a painting shift its meaning in the way that people are transformed by their surroundings? we shall see...