Meditating Yogi Suar Wood Sculpture
This extraordinary piece by Wayan Rendah, crafted in the Megulet style, signifies a profound technical and spiritual undertaking. The yogi bows his body and presses his head against open palms, rocking back and forth, trancelike, on folded legs. The muscles and tendons of his arms and legs are stretched taut as he prays with unrelenting fervor. The piece emits a powerful aura of piety, of religious asceticism, and of self-denial.
Yogis are holy men and great mystics, beloved figures in the countryside, and villagers will feed and care for the yogis as they roam from region to region, searching for perfect purity and knowledge through meditation, ecstatic trances and frightening self-mortification.
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A gripping piece in local suar wood, the sculpture is redolent of Eastern mysticism and stark simplicity used to induce contemplation and reflection.
- Suar wood
- Each artwork is unique — wood grain, color, and pattern will differ slightly from picture
- Handmade in & fairly traded from Indonesia.
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