Thursday 9 January 2020

Covered Sculpture

"Better wrap it, I want my sculpture to go." Seems to be quite the mantra around Mandalay, sculpture after sculpture, figure after figure, sealed in cellophane, plastered in plastic.

A typical roadside religious stall. Don't forget some stupa on the side.


Wrap with what you have.

Some logic in the practice, all that carving, chipping would be a disaster.


The sealing brings a surreal quality to the figures, their own veiled beauty.

Or is it suffocating?

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