Sanatan Dharma (Eternal Law)

SANATAN DHARMA (ETERNAL LAW)
There is a Sanskrit word — dharma — that has no precise equivalent in English. It is translated, inadequately, as law, duty, truth, righteousness. But what it really means is something closer to: the nature of a thing. The way a river is wet. The way fire burns. The way a human being, at their most alive, cannot help but move toward growth, toward meaning, toward something larger than the self.
Sanatan Dharma — the eternal law — is the idea that this nature is not invented or imposed. It was always here. It will always be here. It is what the universe is made of, underneath everything else.
This painting is a self-portrait.
Not of a face or a body, but of an inner architecture — the artist rendered as vessel, as container, as a form built to hold what passes through it. The jarrón at the centre is not a decorative motif. It is a human being: upright, hollow, shaped by everything poured into it and everything it has poured out, decorated not with ornament but with the geometric language that arrived through years of transmission — the same symbols that appear in crop circles and ancient glyphs, now mapped onto the contours of a life.
Each section of the vessel carries its own pattern, its own frequency, its own colour. Together they form a complete record — not of what the artist chose to be, but of what passed through him on the way to becoming it. Green for growth. Purple for the transformations that arrived uninvited and stayed until they had finished their work. Blue for the long periods of quiet understanding. Gold for what remains when everything unnecessary has been stripped away.
The background holds it all in a field of infinite repetition — the eternal law behind the particular life, the pattern that continues whether or not any individual vessel is there to receive it.
At 91 × 122 cm, this is the largest work in the collection. It requires a wall that can hold it and a collector who understands that what they are acquiring is not decoration but a record of a genuine reckoning with what it means to be alive.
91 × 122 cm · Mixed media on canvas · 2024 · One of a kind Unframed. Signed, titled and dated on the reverse. Certificate of Authenticity included.