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These are inspired by Tibetan prayer flags, which Buddhist monks hang on the high steppes so the prayers printed on them can be whisked into the universe with help from the elements. I wanted something more culturally relevant than Sanskrit sutras, so I made my own with icons of the hand-made and the natural world. Flags are 9x6 inches each, cut from repurposed bedsheets, and zig-zag stitched to selvage from rolls of upholstery fabric. Images are painted with hand-cut stencils in water-based, low VOC spraypaint.
This was the first WIUX PRESENTS show of the new, 2010 spring semester. The bill was Cast Spells with local bands Prayer Breakfast and Osteoferocious.
Click here to read the interview and listen to some audio by the bands at WIUX.ORG.
Review written by Nicole O'Neal
Pictures by Anthony Bozanich
U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers from the 200th Military Police Command's headquarters company participate in a prayer breakfast organized and hosted by the chaplain's office during battle assembly at Fort Meade, Maryland, May 15. (U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. Michel Sauret)
Stone prayers for fertility on grave of Amelia, a miraculously pregnant woman, Necropolis San Cristobal, Havana, Cuba
At the end of a long, dirt trail off the main 'road' on Madeleine Island in the Apostle chain. You come upon an empty beach shrouded in radiation fog, the choppy surf of Lake Superior charging out of it toward the beach. Stuck atop a makeshift flagpole is the equivalent to a string of Buddhist prayer flags, wildly whipping in the wind out of Canada.
Always fascinating how curious and unafraid they are when I find them. This guy was about three inches long and watched everything I did.
As we go 'across the room, across the road and across the world' for Mission 2008, we are reminded who is in charge
"The sailor tost in storm'y seas,
Though far his bark may roam,
Still hears a voice in every breeze,
That wakens thoughts of home,
He thinks upon his distant friends,
his wife, his humble cot,
And from his inmost heart ascends,
The prayer - Forget me not."
- Dunham Massey House