No Mud / No Lotus

The contents of this book are the prints and poetry of artist Nancy Shahani. A compilation of visual art pieces created in the medium of printmaking by utilizing the methods of silkscreen, lithography, monoprint, offset, etching and woodcut; they are intermixed with original works of poetry and reminiscences of factual events. The employed genre utilized in these works parallels most closely to that of abstract expressionism. These works are about the purity and divinity which allows one to be untouched by the sin around them and rise above the mud while their feet remain rooted in the experience. One must take a divine seat on the lotus and retain their dignity through it all as they become the lotus and the light.