Light-Imagery

After spending thirty years creating a Teaching–Revelation in words, Avatar Adi Da has, in recent years, begun to create a body of artistic imagery that “speaks” as eloquently and fully as does His Divine Word. Thus, through His Art, Avatar Adi Da offers His direct (non–verbal and non–conceptual) Revelation of Truth, of Reality, of Real God, of the nature of human existence, and of the process of transcending the limitations of human existence.

What is perhaps most striking about Adi Da’s photographs is their gnostic quality—the intricate movement of light and shadow that gives them their expressive depth and profound intimacy. It is more than a matter of standard chiaroscuro. Adi Da is not simply employing the evocative power of light and shadow, but bringing out their emblematic character. Interweaving them—and in numerous works skeins of light (“the fire of the sun”) play over and within shadowy if transparent water (“the water of life”)—Adi Da suggests the union of opposites that is the core of mystical experience.

Donald Kuspit
Art critic, Professor of art and philosophy,
Author, Redeeming Art: Critical Reveries,
and numerous other publications

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