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1st Edition
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- Artists
- Kotas, Karl (KK)
 - Edition Details
| Year: | 1991 | | Class: | Original Art | | Status: | Official | | Technique: | Original Mixed Media | | Size: | 36 X 59 | | Markings: | Signed |
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acrylic on canvas
"I painted "Blue Boy" in 1991 while living in a converted crack-house/social club in Manhattan's East Village. The "Blue" obviously represents a New York State of Mind. The vortex in the mind's eye of the central figure represents circumambulation, which is the movement around a holy object, or of a holy object. The completion of a circle of protection, or of community, creates an integrity that is otherwise difficult to obtain in this world. The application of this in religions is diverse: examples include the Hajj (the Muslim circumambulation of the Ka'ba); the Prayer Wheel in Tibet; the stupa and Bo tree in Buddhism; the respect shown to the Adi Granth on entering a gurdwara; Lavan; the Hindu "following the sun" around the sacred fire and, in the temple (and, in pradaksina, to go around any sacred object, person, or place, including the whole of India; the seven circuits (hakkafot) around a cemetery before a burial by Sephardi and Hasidic Jews. In Witchcraft the magic circle would be a circumambulation. The energetic lines running up and down the figure is the secondary vortex of energy."-KK
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