He already had two tattoos, one of Hanuman representing courage, the other of a Satkona yantra, a hexagram representing an ideal meditative state.

Bands of light arranged like hexagrams from the I Ching slice up the performers before they strip naked as newborns.

It’s a versatile seed, though, whether teased apart in his “Hexagram” series, or rendered three-dimensional in the relief prints “Pollen.”