"Unbound Prayers"



Media - (Book): Acrylic, Rice Paper, Silk, Ink
(Altar): Acrylic on Ceramic Tile
Dimensions - (Book):55 Leaf Pages @ 7.5" x 8"
(Altar): 24"h x 20"w x 4"d

An illuminated script,
mounted on a ceramic tile alter.

This prayer book is dedicated to all seekers of inner peace in the outer world. Unbound Prayers is inspired by the 100 verses of the chapter entitled, "Peace", in the ancient Vedic scripture, Astavakra Samhita, and 108 Sufi prayers. The abstract forms, which appear in Unbound Prayers, are painted in wet-on-wet technique on rice paper. The liquidity of the paint medium is important, serving as a metaphor for inner freedom--relinquished control. The chosen colors are those of human body fluids. Many of the printed flags, which are revealed as the viewer lifts the small paintings, are perhaps unfamiliar to most viewers. This is a good vehicle towards meditation since one is less able to project judgements of racial, political, or economic status onto them.

Unbound Prayers is a scriptural marriage between Sufi prayers and Vedic text. The one hundred verses were originally written in Sanskrit, a language older than Hebrew and Latin. The very first sacred books of Hinduism are the Vedas. Vedas means Knowledge. There are four Vedas, claiming to teach humans the highest aspects of truths which lead us to God.

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