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The Golden Sikh Temple at Amritsar

Oil on Canvas - (95cm x 130cm)

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"The Sikh reverence for hair is a tenet of their religion. Here at the Golden Temple it is a fundamental requirement to cover it. An orange coloured handkerchief sized piece of cotton was issued to ceremoniously cover my stretched head hair, a token turban. Too hot on this day to sit and sketch in any comfort beyond a quick so wobbly line drawing, so I took many photographs of it and also bought a stack of postcards from a smiling vendor. A combination of these pictorial sources would inform the painting to be completed all being well, later this year in Trinidad. The heat now against life and it was thus easier to see why the so-called hill- stations of the Himalayas had been developed over the centuries such as Dharamsala, the place I now headed for. The de-luxe bus wound its precarious way up a mountain."

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2004 : United Religions Initiative Magazine – article on sacred sites URI:Initiative Magazine - Language of Art