Freehold Maiya
104 x 150 x 89 cm; 41 x 59 x 35 in
Stylised yet amazingly lifelike figures that form K.S. Radhakrishnan?s ?Freehold Maiya?, is the personification of the female form who rides at the anchoring abacus in the air or dances through space like a freewheeling spirit. Of course at any moment Maiya the woman could `leap like Minoan bull-runners, snatch like zephyrs in mid-flight at a passing breeze, float on imagined clouds, turn cartwheels, do hand-stands, dive and levitate, defying gravity and the body?s natural justice?. At once full of the energetic dalliance of an acrobat, buoyant and bouncy in her predicament, this figure subverts the conventions of sculpture. Airborne despite the heavy metal of which she is made, she maintains only the most fleeting or tenuous contact with her base. And yet, behind this deft illusionism of lightness, what entices is the persona of poise and balance.