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The Sri Arts Story
Sri Asian Arts began as Seven Heavens Trading Company
over twenty five years ago. Though it has undergone many
incarnations, the direct import and sale of Asian, Primitive Arts
and Antiques from Tibet, Nepal, India, Burma, Cambodia and
Indonesia has remained a constant thread.
My friend Seemanta, now retired, was my first business
partner and we were later joined by my wife Somadevi,
now a Doctor of Oriental Medicine. We began importing high
quality antique silver jewelry and textiles from India ,
migrating to Nepal and Tibet with Himalayan masks and
statues. We then expanded to include primitive ancestor
figures from Indonesia and classical Buddha statues from
Southeast Asia. As the business orientation changed, the name
also changed from Seven Heavens to Golden Ganesh, morphing
into Mahakala and finally, to Sri Asian Arts. Through these
transformations,
our commitment has remained the same: to offer
the highest quality antique pieces we can find at a reasonable price.
All our treasures have been discovered by us in their
country of origin. Exploring and enjoying the exotic
cultures of Asia has, after all, always been the whole
point of our endeavor. We have been a long standing direct
source for many Galleries, Art Dealers and Collectors. We have
exhibited at various major Ethnographic, Tribal Arts, and Asian
Arts shows in Santa Fe, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and
New York.
Somnath is a given name from my years of searching and
finding various spiritual teachers. I was born as
Edward Glick in the Bronx, New York, and came of age
in The Village of Manhattan in the 60's. After
spending ten years as the vice-president and director
of the Option Trading and Bond Trading department of a
major Wall Street firm, I resigned in 1973 and went
out to explore the world, and myself in the process.
I bought a Land Rover in England with Seemanta,
outfitted it in Amsterdam and drove it accross the
Sahara desert and through the continent of Africa for
over two years. Upon return to Europe, we bought a
Deux Chevaux in Paris. We drove it through Turkey,
Iran, Afganistan and Pakistan and ended up spending
six years in India riding the spiritual path and
collecting exquisite treasures.
This journey also took me to live in Bali and Japan before
returning to the United States in 1982, settling in Santa Fe,
where the business began flourishing in earnest. In 1993,
Somadevi and I moved to the island of Bali for two years,
then to India again for another three. We moved back to the West
in 1998 and settled in Boulder, Colorado where we have been living
since.
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