STORIES FROM THE MYSTICAL EAST

2004 DANCING STUPAS 

St Mary’s Church Nisse

 

 

video still: The old nun narrates/ De oude non verteld

 

 

video still: The old nun narrates/ De oude non verteld

 

 

video  still: holy water well 

 

 

projection on the Wall Mers sur Indre, FR

 

2002 ORCHESTRA OF SOAP BUBBLES

Concept and realisation and sponsoring: a trip to Burma resulted in an installation, a photo exhibition and a film of a show by the Moustache Brothers, a family of Burmese artists about their ‘black-listedness’. Installation: Burmese poetry carved in cowhides which I tanned myself, statues of cow shoulder blades, statues of aluminium cement and bronzes.

 

 

Bronze hoof of a cow with text, detail

 

 

 

Bronze BI disk |  Ø 62 cm.  

Inscription (An old Sufi-poem from Yemen; If it is true, That my origin is earth, Then the whole earht is my home And all the world my family) in Hebrew: Im achem zo emet, She’me’ha’ adama bati, Az kol ha’arets hie beiti, Vchol ha’olam hu mishpachti   

 

 

Cowhide painted with dragon blood, with the old soefi poem in Japanese signs  

 

 

Cowhide edited characters, pigments and screen printing 

 

 

 

 cleaning a cowhide