Looking back at Thuthuka

20 February 2018

A thought…

There are so many places my mind wanders that I draw inspiration from. My fascinations always bring back to the ancient world. The civilizations of before continuously fascinate me, perhaps it’s my human nature of seeking an origin. However the past is muddled up with history. Information passed down through the ages and altered as people saw fit.

One of the reason the ancient world fascinates me is because of the immense people belief people had to create these structures. Take the Pyramids for instance some mainstream history has you believe these are just monuments created as a final resting place for kings, one of the theories I believe that it was used to help transmit or create a form of electricity or energy. 

Belief is extremely powerful, they make up the world, in a very real sense they are the world, it’s something that lies at the core of our mindset, and lies within every culture and idea.

Thuthuka; looking back on origins

For Thuthuka I had looked back at the different cultures that I grew up with. As a child these are crucial years in your early development, some things that happen to you as a child tend to stay with well into your life.

Islam had its prominence as the religion I would be raised by, my mother was Tamil and converted to Islam after she married my dad, however my parents were not very religious but their belief in a God was very much there.  They were progressive for their time and community, and never stopped me from questioning and exploring.

There are few instances where I remember a clash in faiths.. It was these small instances that started leading me to question religion and other cultures around me. Why couldn’t people of different faiths respect each other?

I had initially tried depicting this division, two faiths joined together yet still apart.  I had focused so much on the division that I hadn’t looked at what ties them together. In a way this is also what is wrong with people, we’re so focused on emphasizing our differences, we forget the things that bring us together. I found that Mosques and Temples used sacred geometry in their design, this lead me to look more at what ties together than breaks apart.

                                                                     Pieces I created for Thuthuka

Sterling Silver and Resin Earrings

Ceramic Incense holders