The Prayer

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Medium: crankshaft,  brass , Gods and Motor

Size: 170 cm x 60 cm

Weight: 240 Kg

Year: 2023

This sculpture features a 5.5 ft. tall crankshaft with idols of Gods on it spinning in the anti-clockwise direction. The act of rotation, across religions, has often been associated with forms of prayer. For example, in Hinduism, the practice of Pradakshana involves walking around the deity in circles. Sufi dervishes portray their faith by spinning, the Rosary beads of Christianity are in acts of rotation as well. Similar examples can be found in both local and indigenous religions as well. Even the universe is constantly spinning and rotating, in a cosmic sense of prayer.

The artist also explores the idea of how faith often becomes ritualistic and mechanical rather than conscious through the anti-clockwise spinning of the Gods in this sculpture.