Installation
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Olive Tree Mantra
Installation at Bratsera Hotel, Hydra, Greece Dimensions Variable 2006 I was invited to Hydra in Greece in 2006 by curator Dimitrios Antonitsis to make a project on the island. I chose a beautiful olive tree with a smooth surface and wrote on it the Heart Sutra, a Buddhist text that I have memorized since growing…
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Mushroom Mantra
Installation Dimensions variable In Mushroom Mantra, the artist writes the Heart Sutra, a Buddhist text that she has memorized since growing up in Taiwan, in Chinese calligraphy on fresh mushrooms. The characters of the text on the Buddhist notion of impermanence decays and transforms with the natural texture of the mushrooms. The work uses an…
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Iris Mantra
Photograph Iris Mantra is the first work that the artist has developed in the Mantra Series where she writes the Heart Sutra in Chinese characters from memory on ephemeral materials. In this work, the characters of the text about the Buddhist notion of impermanence decays and transforms with the natural texture of the flower. The…
