January sunshine battery

Sunlight through glass

Tropical warmth in Kew Gardens greenhouses

@kew @kewgardens

#ineededit #sunshine #wintersun #tropical #greenhouse #kew #kewgardens #sunshinebattery #happinessbattery #glass #warmth

Making own clouds: cloud generator at Wonderlab, Science Museum London. I have always wanted to do this and this cloud machine just does it for you, you just press! I have a fascination with anything indoors that’s supposed to be outdoors, eg mini trees indoors (bonsai), rain showers etc. So amazing – the whole of the Wonderlab is. Half of my own art is generated from my childhood or things related to childhood anyway so is a perfect afternoon for all @wonderlab @sciencemuseum

#beingakid #childhood #kidagain #bigkid #kidult #inspiration #cloudmachine #cloudgenerator #bringingtheoutdoorsin #science #sciencemuseum #wonderlab #london #fun

First circles

Circles within circles (stories within stories)

#toddlerart #buddhaboard #magicboard #magicbrush #magicink #themagicofpainting #waterpainting #nomessinroom #keepmessinstudio #firstfirsts #envelopingschema

X-ray yay!

#xray #x-ray #inside #foot #child #inspiration #blackandwhite #bones #dembones

This is unusually long and thin because a) I like paintings with strange dimensions and b) it’s for a window (above a window, more later).

It’s called Willow Window.

Hidden Willow Pattern chinoiserie western dreams of the east among cloud islimi tazhib Islamic illumination also inspired by Chinese motifs.

#willowpattern #willowwindow #vaishaliprazmari #strangedimensions #inxanadu #innxanadu #chinoiserie #chineseinspired #islamicart #tazhib #illumination #islimi

Just as Siddhartha is leaving his family in order to become Buddha, he glances back – and sees his sleeping wife breastfeeding his sleeping child.

Triangular boob!

#madonna #buddha #breastfeeding #breastfeedingatnight #247job

Buddha’s left footprint Buddhapāda (as indicated by big toe on the right) – one of the oldest objects of veneration and worship associated with the Buddha – decorated with 108 auspicious symbols including royal insignia, mythical creatures, rivers, mountains and continents. There is a conch shell in each toe. Talismanic inspiration from 19th century Burma

@bl @britishlibrary

#buddhafootprint #footprint #talismanic #inspiration #1001nightsphd #vaishaliprazmari #bl #britishlibrary

Golden oldies. Book of gold – Maunggan gold plates – oldest Buddhist manuscripts found in Burma, in Pyu script, from 5th century. The text is hammered into the gold metal. These are literally solid gold leaves of a book!

@bl @britishlibrary

#gold #bookofgold #inspiration #buddhist #1001nightsphd #vaishaliprazmari #oldbooks #goldbooks

Gold on top of red on my talismanic shirt

Double the effort, double the effect though I think

#workinprogress #talismanicshirt #doingthingsproperly #gold #red #1001nightsphd #vaishaliprazmari

Chinese – Tibetan translation of Lankāvatāra Sutra (Dunhuang, China, 9-10th century), an important text in Chan or Zen Buddhism. Between the vertical Chinese script you’ll see the Tibetan. Some languages can be written both horizontally and vertically which is very flexible. The invention of concertina books represent the midway between the palm leaf format of South Asia and Chinese scrolls @bl @britishlibrary

#books #scrolls #palmleafmanuscript #concertinabook #1001nightsphd #inspiration #vaishaliprazmari #buddhisttexts #languages