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empowering the humble stitch through communicating images of women in mixed media with use of encaustics, organic prints, textile inks, ink-jet prints, beeswax, hand stitchery in dyed cotton thread & free-motion stitchery on my assemblages of over-dyed vintage linens. in the vernacular form of quilt, the medium is a transcendent Stitchery for mending the fragmented human condition.

the latest series of work is called 'Sutras', in Sanskrit, this literally means 'thread'. The process of creating this work codifies a gateway between gravity and grace, the text is laid upon the book which is the human body. Tattooing cloth with thread, marking rites of passage both ceremonial and mundane, as sacred time.

These works are prayer, as any sound, movement or task drawn out of the body. Each stitch a vibration in the infinite cosmic sound current.

Niradhara is the founding artist and facilitator of Jubileeart which brought sacred art programs to MCI-Framingham prison and founder / facilitator of an ashram art studio, center for sacred art in upstate NY. She is ordaining as an Interfaith Minister in June 2008, is a practicing Yogic/Vedic Fire Ritualist and hosts a meditation circle in Brooklyn called Peace Pod - a community for praying with fire.

http://www.jubileeartist.com (art archives)
http://www.yessy.com/niradhara (current art inventory / sales)
http://www.jubileeartist.com/vessel.html (resume)
http://www.agnihotrin.blogspot.com (fire medicine/ ceremonies/ rituals/ meditation)
http://www.myspace.com/niradhara (personal)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jubileeartist/sets/72157594431388350/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jubileeartist/sets/72157594431441878/
http://flickr.com/photos/jubileeartist/sets/72157603820990925/
http://www.facebook.com/srch.php?nm=niradhara
http://people.tribe.net/75e976ad-3cc1-49ee-92ac-c0abaa8730b4 (fire poi)

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