A Metaphor Before Us, India

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For sixteen days I walked paST these doors in the village that separated me from the festival grounds at India’s Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest religious pilgrimage. These doors, this scene, spoke to me on a deeper level, beckoning to be given a voice. I haven’t photographed many doors in my time, but on that seventeenth day of passing them, I finally listened. I felt their intention strong enough to stop and make this image. It wasn’t until I had returned home from India and was selecting the final pieces for my very first museum exhibition, that it occurred to me what these doors were saying. The message was clear. The brown door represents the pilgrims plight, for most come by land. The blue door represents the water for which the one hundred million came. The separation in the concrete represents the break in the cycle of reincarnation and the stairs to the right allow them access to the heavens, a Metaphor Before Us, the story of Kumh Mela.

All Limited Edition Collector’s Series pieces are printed on museum rag paper or museum edition canvas using archival pigment inks. Limited Edition Collector’s Series pieces ship, print only.  If choosing museum paper, your new photographic art piece will ship with a 1.5 inch white border around the entirety of the image where the artist signs, titles, numbers and embosses over the dated signature.  If choosing museum canvas, your new photographic art piece will be shipped with a 1.5″-2″ mirror to allow for the piece to be stretched over 1.5″-2″ stretcher bars. Canvas pieces are signed and numbered on bottom right front of the image unless otherwise requested.  All Limited Edition Collector’s Series pieces are shipped unframed and tubed with a Certificate of Authenticity.  We can provide recommendations on how to frame your new art upon request.  This will insure maximum style and longevity for you new works.  Edition numbers are the total in the edition, size interdependent.  There are not multiple editions for different sizes.  Only one number, one edition.

Initialed Open Edition Prints are printed on photographic paper and matted in an off white, 4-ply acid free matte. Open Edition Prints are initialed on the front of the matte and in verso.  All Open Edition Matted Prints fit standard frames.

Specifications:

5×7 prints ship matted to fit standard 11×14 frames

8×8 prints ship matted to fit standard 12×12 frames

8×12 & 9×12 prints ship matted to fit standard 16×20 frames

12×12 prints ship matted to fit standard 16×16 frames

12×16 & 12×18 prints ship matted to fit standard 20×24 frames

 

For sixteen days I walked paST these doors in the village that separated me from the festival grounds at India’s Kumbh Mela, the world’s largest religious pilgrimage. These doors, this scene, spoke to me on a deeper level, beckoning to Read on! →