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Portrayer of Lakshmi, Consort to Vishnu
Title:Portrayer of Lakshmi, Consort to Vishnu
This isone way young girls learn about becoming a woman in traditional societies.


Marti Belcher
USA



Biography: Life is a journey, a continuum of everyday events and ordinary people, all of which make for an extraordinary lifetime of experiences. The commonplaceness of the people, the situations and the objects found along my journey, become the elements that evoke calm, bring comfort, and furnish a sense of connectedness for me. I am an adventurer, a lover of color, culture and the bewitching. My path has taken me to Asia, particularly India and Myanmar. It is a long way from a dairy farm in New York State but the dairy farm was a good place to start the journey. I learned to appreciate...