SACRED JOURNEY

The “Sacred Journey” series is a voyage of discovery. It is an endeavour to recollect the diverse spiritual encounters with the multifarious ethnic traditions of my homeland, Mauritius. These reminiscences of early days of my childhood  are the raw material I often used as components of my creative work. “Sacred Journey” is an attempt to reflect on these early confrontations with cultural diversity thus exploring the peripheries of a complex cultural identity. The then intuitive grasp of the truth and meaning of cultural practices unaffected by doctrine and the instinctively experienced aura of transcendence prevalent in all the ritual ceremonies are the two main aspects of these recollections which have been recurrently investigated in different series.The thematic of my work being the spiritual intensity in a wide sense I sometimes combine ritual symbols of different cultural communities or use archaic contexts to emphasize the hieratic character of some rituals.