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Washington state's Museum of Glass transports visitors with Hindu inspired exhibition

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Tahlib
Image of installation courtesy of museum website
WASHINGTON - Venetian artists, and siblings Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana have joined forces to create Scapes, a dynamic and entirely new body of glass work at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington. "Scapes: Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana" is all the more fascinating because it represents not only their first combined museum exhibition, but also their conjoined interpretations of an aspect of Hindu cosmology. The exhibition comprises four rooms based on the Hindu belief that the universe is divided into separate spheres of existence: Earth, Space, Sun, and Moon and Constellations. All of the work for Scapes was produced entirely at the Museum of Glass.

Museum of Glass: "Scapes: Laura de Santillana and Alessandro Diaz de Santillana," 1801 Dock Street, Tacoma, WA, April 7, 2012 - January 2013, (253)777-3953, museumofglass.org
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Asif | Ya Shah Naqshband Imdad Kun! said…
"one of the greatest gods of Hinduism, also called Mahadeva. The “horned god” and phallic worship of the Indus valley civilization may have been a prototype of Shiva worship or Shaivism. Shaivism is mentioned as early as the Upanishads and the Mahabharata (500–200 B.C.). Shiva is identified with the fierce Vedic god Rudra and, in his terrible aspect, is the god of destruction and cosmic dissolution. He is commonly worshipped in the form of the lingam, or symbolic phallus. His other main forms are the great yogi, or ascetic, and Nataraja, Lord of the Cosmic Dance. As a yogi he is depicted as seated deep in meditation in the Himalayas, holding a trident, a snake coiled around his neck, his body smeared with ashes, and his hair long and matted. As Nataraja, he is shown four-armed, bearing various emblems, and dancing on one foot on a prostrate demon. Shiva's mount is the bull Nandi, and his consort is the goddess Uma, Parvati, Durga, or Kali."
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