On this bright, sunny Valentine’s Day, Anna and Asher and I visited SAAM to see Garden and Cosmos: The Royal Paintings of Jodhpur.
Grandness is invoked, and intricate stories are described.
The cosmic, intentioned universe is reflected in the mythic structure of gardens, space, color. Symmetry, repetition, and narration vary from painting to painting. The minutest detail seems to hold worlds. Some of the trees are painted using the artist’s thumbprints!
There is the Garden, and there is the framing of the Garden. Perhaps it is the latter that summons the Cosmos?
