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And seeing the full fourth moon up in the sky
I pick it up with the palm of my hand
The water trinkets down like mercury
As I hurry to gulp it down my throat
But as the moon touches the tip of my tongue
It explodes into a million stars
Opening each pore of my body
Twinkling down my spine, Activating each vertebra.

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Archetypes, knowledge, wisdom, discretion, liberation, merging of form and sounds.
An essence crossing over from flight to light…
my flight is beyond a zillion skies,
Suns moons and stars
I ride the waves of wind and water
I dive deep beneath the earth finding the worlds of earth and skies
No different from the world above or from the world within.

In Silence the Secrets Speak

Seema Kohli, May6, 2015

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Moon Myths

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The Golden Womb Series

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Tree of life

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Khula Aasman

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Herbs of Inheritance

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About Seema Kohli

Seema Kohli (b.1960), a multidisciplinary artist, delves into the realms of myth and fantasy through an eco-feminist lens. Her work, which spans both visual and performative mediums, explores the themes of beauty and sensuality as they resonate across philosophical and spiritual traditions. Kohli primarily celebrates the cosmic feminine and its intricate relationship to the forces of creation and destruction, she seeks to create new artistic identities by reimagining belongings.

Global Highlights

Global Highlights

Through processes of decay, hybridization, and transformation, she bridges the past and the present, inviting a dialogue between the two. Kohli's works live in multiple museums and institutional collections all over the world, including the British Museum (UK) , Museum of Art and Photography (India) , Bihar Museum (India) , Kiran Nadar Museum of Arts (India) , Birth Rites Collection (UK) , Rubin Museum (USA) , Lalit Kala Akademi (India) to name a few.

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Writings

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Ouroboros

Ouroboros

Grid of 84 archival prints of self-portraits, of 10×10 inch. The cycle of life revolves around birth, death and the eventual liberation from mortality to...

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Bagh Phulkari: Bird Song

Bagh Phulkari: Bird Song

In my memory, my paternal aunt or bua, was the one who introduced us to a lot of our own personal oral history about our...

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Sarva Kalvitam Maya

Sarva Kalvitam Maya

Breathe, I say to myself, approaching the studio, for breath can no longer be taken for granted, not any more, not when the oxygen has...

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Chaunsat Yogini (64 Yoginis)

Chaunsat Yogini (64 Yoginis)

This series of 64 etchings visualises the cosmic feminine energy (Shakti) as it emerges from the Hiranyagarbha, or golden womb, and continuously multiplies into countless...

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