If the geometry of the planes held in balance in the structure
is any clue  to the language of the sculptor,
the forehead speaks of an emergent thought,
pouring in streams from the right and the left,
 merging at the middle of the eyebrows arching over a pair of eyes and descending in an unbroken flow
 into the cavity of the functionally shaped nose,
and from there connecting the flow of the thought and the breath
 in and out in a flow,
outwardly in a communion and inwardly in an absorption,
bridging the inner and the outer realities of the mind.
The slightly uplifted upper lip
 would translate the emergent thought as the lower lip would be in a readiness to utter the word.
The cheeks in triangles support the nose in its sacred flow of life. The two half-circles like two hemisphere of earth will make the eyes , half revealing , half concealing the mystery of its secret code.
The shadows beneath the nostrils and the lip would define
the meditative spots of retreat and then the viewer's eye will move to discover the two ornamental lotus -buds: the ears,
poised along the sideways in a respectful silence to receive the word that makes the spirit aware of its divine origin in sound.
And lastly the all pervasive force will lift the viewer's glance
 to take in the whole with discernment into the heart of the soul.

SUSHAMA KARNIK

March 26, 2015.

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