G R Iranna: Ether is all that is

The artist uses the holy ash or ‘vibhuti’ as a primary medium in this series of work, which is further referred to as a metaphor for the impermanence of life. Birth and death, thereby, exist together, as one. We rise from the dust and we go back to ash. What remains is an infinite nothingness. The ash is spiritually believed to ward off negative energies and the artist through his work makes an attempt to put forward the union of these energies and the circularity of flow between them