March 04, 2004
#27 :: Ganesha finger puppet
Ganesha is not a little rubber guy you can put your finger in to perform counterpane dramas. He's the "lord of and destroyer of obstacles" according to the above link. But we found him in a carved wooden bowl along with about 38 more like him, in an import curio shop on the two blocks of San Francisco that we revisit just about every time we go to the city. A few doors down is the venerable City Lights Bookstore and the unstoppable Brandy Ho's Hunan Food. But there, one night, were 39 Ganeshas and about 23 Vishnus. We bought one of each. Buying gods seems now like a frivolous activity. I'm Catholic by upbringing, but I'll probably park Ganesha on my desk at work for the next few weeks while I try to claw raw design ideas out of blank white Photoshop windows. Inspiration often rests in the tiniest things.