Title: “STEALING SNOW”
Size: 40.25” W x 32.25” H (unframed)
Story:
The dividing line between immortality and mortality in Chinese mythology is blurred. The first divine human being was known as Pan Gu. As this giant lay dying, his human form was transformed into the parts of the cosmos. His breath became the wind and clouds, his eyes became the sun and moon, and his blood became rivers and rains and his flesh the soil. For me in the hereafter, the form of a wild steed smacking the tundra, wind in mane, “stealing snow” out of the reflection in my eye, would suit my simple existence just fine.
Materials:
Acrylic, fluorescent and metallic paints on heavy 2 ply watercolor paper, veiled over with hand-made Japanese rice lace, bathed in a mixture of archival beeswax and UV-resistant polymers, bordered with insets of mid 1800’s Tibetan Sanskrit, with outside top, bottom and side panels wrapped in late 1800’s quilted Mongolian cloth from a wedding decoration (and embroidery), wrapped with vintage embroidered horse cloth, then wrapped at top and bottom with vintage Miao embroidery from China, sides wrapped with late 1800’s Chinese embroidery from a Miao baby carrier, then wrapped in late 1800’s Turkmenistan embroidery including tassels from a horse trapping, adorned at top with a mid-1800’s Afghanistan belt medallion.
For more information and pricing please contact Thomas Anthony Gallery in Park City, UT at 435-645-8078.
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