An animated film · the Sivakasi calendar-art idiom

Subramanya Bhujangam

Verses four and five · Tiruchendur, as in a dream

A young sage at the sea's edge before dawn, seen from behind, holding a staff and a water pot, a white peacock beside him and a storm massing offshore. — At the waterline

The Avatar Waits

An avatar of Subramanya stands at the shore of the ocean of existence — the white peacock beside him, the storm still out at sea.

Shanmukha, six-faced and twelve-armed, rising in the calendar-art manner. — The rising

Shanmukha Revealed

He rises to help, and is revealed — six-faced, twelve-armed.

A work in progress. The vel is self-inquiry.