After the Storm : Artwork 3

The Vedic cosmology of kalachakra — the wheel of time — made a claim that Western linear thinking has always found difficult: that there is no ending that is not simultaneously a beginning. The Sanskrit word anta means end, but in the context of Vedic cyclical time, it also means the point of return — the place on the wheel where one rotation concludes and the next begins. The same point, from a different angle. This is not optimism or consolation. It is a structural observation about the nature of time itself in the Indian philosophical tradition — one that placed the concept of pralaya (cosmic dissolution) alongside srishti (creation) as equally necessary and equally sacred phases of the same ongoing process. In the context of a personal transition — the end of a relationship, a career, a phase of life — this phrase offers something more useful than reassurance: a framework in which ending is not a problem to be survived but a phase to be completed. The most philosophically grounded piece in the After the Storm collection.