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Paired Diptych of Lenticular Images (36 inches x 24 inches) + Découpé text in acryclic (36 inches x 24 inches |
Unfamiliar Tales is a pair of image-text diptychs titled 'How The Most Terrible Solitude Was Overcome' and 'How the Long Wait for the Thaw was Endured'. The work features lenticular reproduction of photographic images and text inscriptions cut into hard plastic surfaces (along with corrections in the form of 'strike-through' lines). The texts are very short stories, two new Jataka tales, of equal length. Jataka Tales often include animals and common folk, adopt a demotic idiom and suggest that Buddhahood or enlightenment has a universal potentiality. A monkey, a bird, an artisan, a washer-woman - each of these can be a Buddha. So, we think, can a patch of sky, and a cheerful bicycle. Unfamiliar Tales takes this universal potential for enlightenment as its fulcrum in order to narrate two modes of being that approximate a state of 'not-self'-ness - a manner of sentience that locates its origin and existence within a web of dependence and reciprocity that encompasses the ever-changing nature of the material universe. The work proposes a pair of parables about moments in the journeys of a lost patch of sky and a frozen bicycle towards Buddhahood. These moments are exemplars for what liberation can mean today. |
"A Question of Evidence", Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary 21. Vienna |
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