Calendars

The Indivisible Space of Conscious Light

(Color Portfolio & Mille Camera V)

2023 Calendar

The 2023 Divine Image-Art Calendar, a sublime offering of Quandra Loka multiple exposure color photographs and configurations, commemorates the 20th anniversary of Adi Da Samraj’s first gallery exhibition in 2003, at Louis Stern Fine Arts on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles.

Quandra Loka is a visual meditation on a very simple circumstance: a woman in and near a pool of water. Narcissus, the archetype of ego, gazes at his own reflection in a pond, never able to contact the “object” of his self-enamored affection. But Quandra, the true beloved, is one with the water itself, whether in or out of the pool.

I intend these images to “picture” the unity of the undifferentiated reality from which all appearances emerge in a constant flow of changes. The entire span of human possibilities is reflected in these images—both “positive” and “negative.” But all possibilities are seen in the context of that inherent unity or indivisible space. The positives and the negatives are all transcended, rather than any attempt being made to render them acceptable in and of themselves.

Size: 24” x 18”

9 Mary

(The Superconductivity of Celibate Women Under The Midnight Sun)

2022 Calendar

9 Mary—a monumental suite created by Adi Da Samraj in a three-month period from November 2001 through January 2002—is a pinnacle of Adi Da’s black-and-white imagery. In this suite, Adi Da infuses nine female subjects in light—in veiled, unveiled, and “re-patterned” abstractions—to the point of unrecognizability and dissolution. As Adi Da said in his artist’s statement:

I work to move the viewer into ecstasy—abstracted beyond the ego’s modes of perception. Ecstasy abstracts absolutely but not meaninglessly—beyond all presumed “difference” between “self” and “other”’.

Size: 23.5” x 17”