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Dr Sangeeta Sandrasegar

On the field of truth on the battlefield II, 2009
Paper mache, acylic paint, glue, cotton thread, human hair
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Query: how to combine belief that the world is to a great extent illusory with belief that it is none the less essential to improve the illusion?
Aldous Huxley, Eyeless in Gaza
The second instalment in an ongoing project based upon readings of the Bhagavagita. (II) draws heavily upon Huxley’s main protagonist’s journal entries across 1934 – A series of entries that mark a modern search for a satisfactory centre and meaning of life, and the quest for real liberty. In this connected language I discovered another guide with which to read the poem, akin to Arjuna, when he asks of Krishna: Ah! Yet again recount…
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