Untitled (Early Tantric Period)

G. R. Santosh’s meditations on the Shiva-Shakti principle in Kashmiri Shaivite tantric philosophy led him to create works that depicted the energy of their union. Santosh came to be one of the foremost practitioners of the genre termed neo-tantra, a modernist response to tantra’s tenets. Art, for Santosh, was meditative, spiritual. This painting reflects that mystical union, represented through the pure white centre, encompassed by several squares and the luminous, fluid form embedded within. The practice of harnessing colour to depict light aids the viewer further in meditation.