Flight delayed by a few hours? It won?t be as much a waste of time, if you considered taking a mini art tour across Chennai Airport ( South India). Over the course of the last couple of years, ever since the new airport was opened in 2013, 37 murals and four sculptures have been installed in both the domestic and international terminals .
The installation of this beautiful example of Urban Art, the 12-and-a-half-foot-high Nataraja is visible from everywhere in the arrival hall. It?s made of fibre, and has been made to look as if it has been made out of wood, and coloured in the way wooden sculptures are coloured traditionally. The depicts the Cosmic dance of the Hindu God Shiva
In choosing the image of Shiva Nataraja, the world has acknowledged the profound significance of the metaphor of Shiva?s dance for the cosmic dance of subatomic particles, which is observed and analyzed by CERN?s physicists. The parallel between Shiva?s dance and the dance of subatomic particles was first discussed by Fritjof Capra in an article titled ?The Dance of Shiva: The Hindu View of Matter in the Light of Modern Physics,? published in Main Currents in Modern Thought in 1972. Shiva?s cosmic dance then became a central metaphor in Capra?s international bestseller The Tao of Physics, first published in 1975 and still in print in over 40 editions around the world.
Camera: Google Nexus 4, image slightly adjusted for light and sharpness, slightly cropped and resized to FAR requirement.
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