Moyo 2016

Ink, watercolor, crayon, acrylic, graphite, faux pearl on yupo

23 x 30,5 cm

Someone I do not know once sent me a card with well wishes and this card was crafty and had attached to it several faux pearls. I kept them.

They made me think of the Mani Stones of the Tibetan Buddhists – stones carved with the mantra Om Mani Padme Hum and stacked into cairn.

These mantras, for compassion, come as the essence imbued in the card I'd received here at a place of death – in the figurative, a charnel house. Or, well...not so figuratively.