Kali Time for Change

My latest embellished ebru project is focused on the Hindu Devi Kali Ma. This was a great winter project.


Hand painted Kali Ma screens.

I planned out a four color silkscreen print made with only two screens. Then made a vibrant red battal ebru to embellish with the new screen print art.


Work in progress - fresh Kali screen print drying on original battal ebru.

Most know her as the Great Mother, Kali Ma, the Goddess of time and change. Often perceived as a destroyer, Kali is the redeemer of the universe. She is a champion Devi that destroys only to create, and what Kali Ma fights is ignorance and well... demons. Peoples inner demons mostly, but there are stories of her on the battlefield kicking demon butt.


Finished handmade original acrylic ebru (turkish paper marbling) battal mono-print embellished with a four color Goddess Kali Ma screen print on kozo paper. 19" x 24"

Exited by her victory Kali Ma is known to dance on her fallen foes. Kali's trident represents the female energy of the triple Goddess - virgin, mother, and crone. While the sword gives protection from fear. She also caries with her a bowl of blood. Blood being a symbol of both life and death.


This red battal ebru resembles blood.

Kali is always seen with a string of skulls wrapped around her neck, showing a mastery over fear and death. While her crown shows great wisdom and truth.

Always naked and revealing the truth of who she is. There are no clothes that can mask her, for she is pure and without illusion. With wild hair, untamed like uncultivated nature.


original handmade acrylic ebru (turkish paper marbling) mono-print embellished with a four color Kali Ma screen print on cotton paper. 19" x 24"

The cosmic sal ebru in this second piece was done on a methylcellulose size. It was a bit different from the carrageenan size I normally work with. I was expecting precise control over the movement of the paint, but instead I found I was more of the conductor of chaos as the paint spiraled out of my design and created something of its own. I think the ethereal mono-print that came from such chaos should be viewed as an abstract portrait of the Kali Ma energy.


The wise woman with the third eye.

Om Krim Kali Namah!

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-Danny

Focusing Divine Energy

The new ebru pieces I have been working on are embellished with the Japanese Jumon, Choku Rei (sho-ku-ray).


Handmade original, double layer acrylic ebru (turkish paper marbling) on kozo paper.

The Choku Rei is a symbol used in Reiki Healing to increase the flow of energy through the practitioner, thus increasing the healing potential. Choku Rei loosely means, focus divine energy here, and is informally referred to as the Power symbol.

Reiki roughly translated means, divine energy.  I see Ebru as a representation of the same energy.


The Choku Rei focuses the flow of the divine energy.

These pieces were made by utilizing a paper masking technique which requires me to go through the ebru process twice to define the symbol.




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Danny