MAKARA VILAKU
FROM- FRAGMENTS OF A SAKYA WITH A WHITE HORSE
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MAKARA VILAKKU
FROM
FRAGMENTS OF A SAKYA WITH A WHITE HORSE -04
As a child, I climbed these hills with devotion before I understood anything about history.
The pilgrimage felt older than explanation.
Older than language.
Older than the stories I was later taught to repeat.
Years later, while searching through Buddhism, memory, and erased histories, I began seeing Sabarimala differently.
Not as a broken faith
but as a place carrying layers beneath layers.
This painting came from that feeling.
The child who walked toward the light
and the man trying to understand what that light once meant
exist together inside this work.
To me, this is not just a pilgrimage route.
It feels like an ancestral memory surviving through ritual, landscape, fire, and footsteps.
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
Makara Vilakku emerges from a personal relationship with Sabarimala that stretches across childhood, memory and historical inquiry.
Long before questions of religion, identity or history entered the picture, there was simply the journey.
The climb through forest paths.
The collective movement of thousands of pilgrims.
The anticipation of light appearing against the darkness of the hills.
For many, the pilgrimage is an act of devotion.
For the artist, it also became a point of investigation.
Years later, while exploring Buddhist histories, forgotten traditions and the ways cultures transform over time, Sabarimala began to reveal itself as a landscape layered with multiple memories. Myth, ritual, geography and history appeared less as separate things and more as overlapping traces of human experience.
This work does not attempt to provide answers.
Instead, it inhabits the space between faith and curiosity.
Between inherited belief and historical exploration.
Between the child who climbed the mountain seeking a sacred light and the adult who continues searching for the stories that may lie beneath it.
Rendered through abstraction, the painting transforms pilgrimage into memory itself—a landscape where devotion, ancestry, loss, wonder and questioning coexist.
The light remains.
Its meaning continues to unfold.
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 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
"The child followed the light. The man followed its memory."