Title / Titre : LOTUS V

Acrylique sur châssis entoilé / Acrylic on canvas
Format/Size: 95 x 95 cm
Date: 2008

Pureté, sérénité, la fleur de Lotus revêt ces symboles de par son exceptionnelle pureté de couleurs bien que ses tiges plongent dans la boue.

The Lotus flower is held sacred in the Hindu, Buddhist, and Egyptian religions. The Lotus is a type of water lily, which rises from muddy waters to blossom, making it a symbol of purity of the soul wikthin the material world, and an emblem of resurrection.

The Lotus is one of the eight auspicious signs of Buddhism- an eight petalled lotus used in Buddhist mandalas symbolizes cosmic harmony, a thousand petalled lotus, spiritual illumination. A bud symbolizes potential.