The Realm of the Hungry Ghosts

The fluidity and figurative resonance of Bhat’s ceramic sculpture might result from the artist’s original background in Indian classical dance — the negotiation of space as ancillary to an overall positive form, and performative act of creation appealing to Bhat. “The Realm of the Hungry Ghosts” suggests an elemental fusion of subject and object, landscape and figure sliding together to become single, more definitively abstract entities — the geological curvatures embedded in the vessels feeling clearly resolved from the material nature of the clay, but conscious tooof a human presence upon its overall resolution.