India Design ID 2022 – New Delhi
Theme: Conscious Luxury and a Decade of Design
Takshni’s Sankhya
Sankhya is an exploration of the intricate balance between consciousness and the material world, drawing inspiration from the profound teachings of Sankhya philosophy. Through an immersive blend of visual interactive elements, the artwork invites the audience to contemplate the nature of reality, cognition, and the interplay between light and darkness within the human psyche. The experience aims to leave visitors with a heightened awareness of the dualistic nature of existence and the complex relationship between consciousness and the material world.
Purusha Materials used: Brass, Mother of Pearl, Textured Base with Wooden Frame Color: Black and gold with ecru background | Sankhya is a dualistic āstika school of Indian philosophy, regarding reality and human experience as being constituted by two independent ultimate principles, puruṣha (consciousness or spirit); and prakṛti, (cognition, mind and emotions, and nature or matter). Purusha, to us is all about energy and that is why it has elements of Sun and Shiva. To us the bells and bulls represent positivity and rays represent energy. |
| Prakriti Elements: Contemporary take female humanbody Materials used: Brass Color: Brown Platina | Prakriti is inactive, and unconscious. Prakriti is the first cause of the world of our experiences, it is not "the evolution of a series of material entities," but "the emergence of experience itself. It is the field of becoming — the root materiality of all experience. Though often translated as "nature" or "matter", Prakriti is more accurately the source of all manifestation, including thought, emotion, and form. It is made up of three gunas: sattva (light, balance), rajas (activity, motion), and tamas (inertia, darkness) which in their interplay generate all phenomena. Prakriti is unconscious by itself. It cannot perceive or know, but it is the ground of all that is perceived or known. |
Jiva | Jiva is that state in which purusha is bonded to prakriti. Human experience is an interplay of purusha-prakriti, purusha being conscious of the various combinations of cognitive activities. It arises when Purusha becomes associated with Prakriti not by any real contact or transformation, but by a kind of superimposition (adhyasa). Jiva is not a separate substance, but a condition: the state in which pure consciousness (Purusha) appears to be entangled in materiality (Prakriti). The Jiva experiences itself as a personal self with thoughts, memories, desires, aversions all of which are products of Prakriti. |
Vaikalya | Vaikalya- is the isolation of purusha from prakṛti, and liberation from rebirth, i.e., Moksha. The circular art piece representing Vaikalya is a powerful and thought-provoking visual representation of the profound spiritual concept. Its symbolism of liberation, unity, and eternal transformation inspires viewers to explore the path of self-discovery and the realization of inner freedom. |