What gives such disturbing power to his [Leonardo's] drawings is that 'something within him'...was analogous to an objective truth of nature...We can see from his studies of grasses and of plaited hair that their vital interlacings were all part of the pattern of his being and that the intensity with which he gazed at whirlpools was the result, rather than the cause of this pattern....That Durer should have looked with heightened perception at the human hand is exactly what his whole work and character would lead us to expect..all his life he saw humanity through the deeds of its hands, whether carving or arguing or praying.
---Kenneth Clark.
The stylized gestures of the soul. Sangeeta explained some of her hand gestures just before the performance. The path from illusion to truth was represented by two movements: her hand swerving like a snake to a finger pointing upwards-which is quite familiar to muslims, of course.
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