THE WORLD IN BRUSH & PEN
Offering Acquisition
Hiroshi Shimazaki
The transformative power of flowers explodes in India .
Hindu texts highlight rituals where flowers act as mediators between the human and the divine and channel blessings uniting devotees with cosmic energies .
In 2010 , I participated in the eight-site Ashtavinayak Ganesh pilgrimage . On the street leading to Moreshwar , the first temple , shops catering to pilgrims ’ ritual needs — flowers , coconuts , and sweets — intermingled with food stalls , souvenir shops , clothing stores , and hotels . The vibrancy is portrayed here with three primary colours .
ARTA member Hiroshi Shimazaki is a geographer / artist who has been practicing watercolour landscape sketching and painting for sixty years . Here he offers one window into an artist ’ s mind .
Offering Acquisition , 2010 Moreshwar Temple , Morgaon , India Watercolour on paper , 41 x 31 cm .
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