Ganesha Statue

Parvati sculpted a boy from clay, her hands moving with the certainty of something ancient. She whispered breath into him, and just like that, he opened his eyes. steady, curious, unaware of the weight of divine time pressing in.

For a while, it was simple. He guarded the threshold, his purpose clear, to let nothing disturb the calm within. But one night, when the winds shifted and shadows lengthened unnaturally, Shiva returned. There was a tension in the air, the kind that crackles silently before a storm. The boy, not knowing who stood before him, blocked the way.

Shiva’s fury was sharp, a force too quick for regret. One strike, and the boy fell, his head rolling into the earth, swallowed by the night. The garden held its breath, waiting for the stars to say something. But the sky stayed empty.

Parvati’s grief stretched across realms. In a half-dream, an elephant’s head was found, carried through mist and dawn, and placed on the boy’s shoulders. He woke again, but something had shifted, his gaze now held a quiet knowing, the kind that comes from breaking and being put back together.

Time passed differently after that. Ganesh became a figure who moved between spaces, slipping easily from one world to the next, always at ease with both the seen and unseen. Somewhere along the way, he lost his right tusk in a moment of unexpected violence, a fight not for power, but for principle. The broken tusk remained a reminder that imperfection is part of wisdom.

Now, he lingers at the edges of things, where thresholds blur and choices twist into spirals. His presence is both calming and unsettling, like encountering a memory you didn’t know you had. He turns obstacles into passages, but never in a straight line. Always a curve, always a detour.

When you find yourself stuck, caught in life’s labyrinth, he might appear.never imposing, just there. A figure with one tusk missing, watching, waiting, until you realize the path was never about getting through. It’s about finding ease in the twist.

Texturing practice done in mari and maya for Think Tank Online class
Model credit: Vinjay Singh