THE GESTURE OF KNOWING
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THE GESTURE OF KNOWING
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FRAGMENTS OF A SAKYA WITH A WHITE HORSE.
For a long time, I thought I was searching for something.
Through villages, stories, rituals, books, pilgrimages, and forgotten histories, I kept following fragments that seemed disconnected from one another.
But some discoveries do not feel like finding something new.
They feel like remembering.
This painting is built around the Gyana Mudra , the gesture associated with knowledge, awareness, and awakening.
Not the kind of knowledge that comes from collecting facts.
The kind that arrives quietly when the search begins to dissolve.
When what was scattered starts forming a pattern.
When ancestry becomes memory.
When memory becomes understanding.
And when understanding becomes stillness.
Additional Information
Medium: Spray can and marker on canvas
Series: Fragments of a Sakya with a White Horse
Edition: Limited Edition Giclée Print
Edition Size: 25 Signed & Numbered Prints Across All Sizes
Certificate: Includes Signed Certificate of Authenticity
Year: 2026
About The Work
The Gesture of Knowing is centered around the Gyana Mudra, one of the most recognizable gestures associated with awakening, insight and understanding within Buddhist traditions.
Traditionally, the mudra symbolizes the union of individual experience and universal truth. It is often interpreted as a gesture of learning, contemplation and realization.
This work approaches that symbol not as a religious icon, but as a personal encounter.
The painting emerged from years spent moving through fragments of history, village traditions, pilgrimage routes, oral memories, Buddhist texts and questions of ancestry. What began as a search for answers gradually transformed into something else.
A recognition.
The realization that certain discoveries do not feel like acquiring new knowledge. They feel like uncovering something that was already present beneath layers of forgetting.
Rather than presenting a literal image of the mudra, the work reconstructs it through abstraction. Forms overlap, dissolve and reappear, reflecting the way memory itself functions—never arriving as a complete picture, but as fragments that slowly begin to reveal a pattern.
The gesture becomes a symbol not of certainty, but of clarity.
Not the end of a journey, but the moment when the need to keep searching begins to soften.
Collector's Note
This artwork forms part of Fragments of a Sakya with a White Horse, an ongoing body of work exploring Buddhist memory, Tamil Buddhist histories, pilgrimage, ancestry and personal transformation through abstraction.
Each print is individually signed and numbered by the artist. Once the edition of 25 is sold, no further reproductions of this work will be produced in any size.
Print Sizes
Small Edition — 15 Prints
Medium Edition — 7 Prints
Large Edition — 3 Prints
Total Edition: 25
Disclaimer
Colors may vary slightly between screen displays and printed editions.
Prints are produced from a high-resolution digital archive of the original artwork. Scale and texture may differ from the original piece.
Frame shown in mockups is for presentation purposes only unless otherwise stated.
Each print is individually inspected, signed and numbered before dispatch.
Suggested Artwork Quote
"Some truths are not discovered. They are remembered."