The monastery is having a new wall built to replace the old bamboo fence. The wall will be plastered and made to look like natural stone. This is the wall which aspiring young monastics sit by while begging entrance into the monastery. The potential monk meditates on the monastery and its function. He works to inwardly attune himself to its vibration in hopes that he will be accepted in as a postulant sadhaka.

Work moves forward on the Media Studio renovation. Here is the main space, now being closed in with framing for the walls. The ceiling is being prepared for the coffers that were made some months back from our own Kauai woods. There are 18 of them, and inside will be different village kolams. LED lights will be hidden inside the coffer, creating an indirect light bounced off the canvas kolam.

Sharing today a couple of images that show the design directions for the publication's building renovation. The first one shows some ventilation grates and windows, done in a kolam tribal motif. Followed by some screen shots of the interior from above, one showing the floor.

Holly Young has sent these photos of the third silpi memorial wax, showing Manikandan (remember him?) sharpening a red-hot chisel. It's so charming how she captured his cloth wrapped up as a cushion, and everything else for that matter. Such a gift she has. 

Holly has completed the molds for this one and they are now in Colorado ready to be poured. 

Today was a milestone day for the renovation of our media studio as we complete the raising up of two steel beams that span the entire main room.

These four roof stones are coming together nicely.

Work continues on the Nandi Mandapam

Recently, Somnath Swami visited the Bangalore worksite. He is one of the senior most monks of Sri Adichunchanagiri Mutt. Swami was overwhelmed with the work being done and inspected every corner of the worksite.

Our perimeter wall work continues in Bangalore. This phase of the work is significant being one of the only occurences of machine use in the carving. The difficult part will be carving about 500 running feet of decorative Chola design wall.