ATM (20th Street)
511 West 20th Street, 212-375-0349
Chelsea
October 13 - November 19, 2005
Reception: Thursday, October 13, 6 - 9 PM
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When it drops, reincarnation is the way inner and outer space become one.
-- C. Lucas
Grimoire 1
Protected by a space helmet, a praying Asian catholic girl is within a sequenced cinematic anime spell. She supplicates; a series of mudras (found in the Buddhist and Hindu religions, each a spiritual truth also used in yoga) simultaneously position the body and the cosmos- she petitions for reincarnation.
Energy crisply reverberates within the saturated transparent physicality of the paint-an epoxy dispersed dye.
Delineated scenes include; a pursuing of blessed energy between incarnations on a pagoda; kissing herself; praying with a German shepherd dog; finally strapped in the cockpit of a space module she meditates on a floating chakra.