
Ladders of Light 3: Kali Yantra print 20 x 16
Ladders of Light #3: Kali Yantraartist Sherri SilvermanSigned and numbered archival giclee print on archival paper, Hahnemühle Bamboo or Moab Entrada. Limited edition of 25. 20” x 16” paper size, 16" x 12" image size$200Ladders symbolize the pathway to communion with the divine/heavens in many traditions: Jacob's ladder in the Judeo-Christian tradition, Horus' ladder in Egyptian mythology, the seven-runged Mithraic ladder, the shamanic pole. The Kali yantra is the goddess in her abstract form. Kali means "time." Sherri’s friend and fellow artist Priya Mookerjee writes: "Kali, the universal mother, is the embodiment of feminine energy, the primal creative principle underlying the entire cosmos." Downward pointing triangles are a universal archetypal symbol of the Feminine Divine; the concentric triangles depicted here are a traditional way of expressing how the Unmanifest emerges into the physical world in ever-increasing waves of manifestation from the bindu point, the junction between