![]() | ![]() | Crazy Wisdom:Rock Bags, 1996, 2 cloth bags 15"x9", |
These sculptures attempt to deny their physicality. Labeled on the outside with rune-like letters their weight suggests the density of rock but their shape is soft and flexible. | ![]() | |
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the bag is open the stones are camoflaged against the sky blue interior of the bag. Instead of the expected closed darkness of a bag we witness the open color of the sky and "invisible" stones. | |
The title comes from a book by Trungpa Rinpoche in which there is a story about the Madman of Tsang, a great siddha who lives in the eastern mountains of Tibet. My favourite part describes a vast treasury he has accumulated consisting of bags and bags of precious things which turn out to be driftwood and rocks. | ![]() | |