Yogini’s Garden

Mindful of the perilous threshold between this world and another an Indian villager offers baksheesh to a formidable guardian spirit for safe passage into a tantric garden where stars glisten around a Christian tomb. A pregnant detail of the famous Arnolfini wedding portrait by van Eyck mirrored on our yogini’s belly is articulate. Asian and indigenous traditions brim with sacred sexual images while the intimacy of Magdalen and the Lord she knew even beyond death has only gradually come to be fully appreciated in Christian circles.