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Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses. illustrated essay: Backyard Bird Diary (Amy Tan/Paris Review). A prosaic series of essays about different birds in her yard (or on her palm), as Tan learns the ways of birds (and bird feeding). video tour: AsiaBarong Gallery, Great Barrington, MA –…

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Portable Healing Shrine

This piece is built upon a found object (a small hand made, hand-painted Hindu shrine that I found at the AsiaBarong marketplace in Great Barrington). While the found shrine was rather crudely made and painted, I thought it would be fun to use the wooden framework to create a personal shrine using my own imagery. 

The selection of images above: 

- a front view of the shrine with all doors closed

- the shrine under its protective glass jar in the gallery

- a view with one side door partially opened - showing Medicine Buddha and emerging lotus

- the shrine with all outer doors open - showing hands making offerings (multiple panels) and Protective Dakinis dancing on the doors of the inner-most realm

- the doors of the inner sanctum opened to reveal the meditating Medicine Buddha flanked by flaming lotus flowers