Step into a world where blindness confers second sight, wounds become lanterns, and bells toll time backward. Fables of the Third Eye invites readers on a mesmerising journey through the uncanny landscapes of inner perception, where the familiar coordinates of reality dissolve into myth, paradox, and profound, unsettling beauty.
In this unique collaboration, M.D. Muthukumaraswamy’s poems forge a language of inward intensity, giving flesh to the abstract and voice to the silence within. These are intricate 'fables' spun from the perspective of the 'third eye' – that intuitive, often fractured, inner vision that surfaces when logic falters. Explore tales of blind sages navigating collective blindness, children born of two shadows warring within, mountains that breathe with the climber, and fountains whispering truths only the deaf can parse. Encounter clockwork oracles dispensing splintered revelations, shadowless villages grappling with a sterilising light, artists who paint gravity itself, and libraries containing infinite versions of every life.
M.D.Muthukumaraswamy crafts a distinctive poetic realm where light chews, silence has architecture, time unravels like thread, and truth is often found not in seeing, but in the "swallowed". Paradox thrives here: ascent is descent, wholeness is found in breakage, and absence holds a palpable weight. Motifs of mirrors, wounds, shifting shadows, potent silence, and fluid time recur, weaving a dense works of interconnected meanings that challenge the reader's perception at every turn.
Complementing and deepening this poetic vision are the extraordinary sculptures and drawings of K. Shyamkumar. His intricate, otherworldly images populate the book, creating a powerful visual counterpoint. Monumental yet detailed, ancient yet immediate, his forms – part-architectural, part-biological – render psychic landscapes and mythic archetypes with stunning clarity. They establish the book's unique atmosphere: a fantastic, introspective setting where the boundaries between inner and outer worlds blur, perfectly echoing the fables spun within the poems.
Fables of the Third Eye offers an immersive experience, a passage through a labyrinth where sight is questioned, reality bends, and the hidden landscapes of the self are illuminated by a strange and compelling light. It is an invitation to embrace the paradoxical, to listen to the silence, and to discover the worlds that open when we dare to look through the third eye.
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