Through My Eyes
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Continuing work on the sculpture of Tara Drolma! Here I'm working on the hair some more, experimenting with some new ideas. I'm trying to give it a lighter feeling without losing the necessary strength that every scupture needs to have.
Things in Tibet are terribly sad and difficult. Tara looks upon her homeland to see suffering like this...
Twelve Tibetans have set themselves on fire and sacrificed their lives to bring the world's attention to this suffering.
Like every bodhisattva Tara grieves for every person in these pictures. For those who wield the shackles will in their future existence become prisoners themselves in an unalterable expression of the way things really are. All are prisoners in these pictures.
And in another dark time of humanity a German pastor Martin Niemöller bitterly reflected on the price of apathy.
First they came for the communists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
It is our responsibility as members of the human family work to end tragedies like these in any way we can no matter how small. Let us not fail to speak out for we then become prisoners too even if of our own conscience.
There's a lot more to add but as usual two as one we'll add to the notes later beautiful one!
* courtesy of A Luminous Diamond (Bright) Crystal Show productions. The information for
the sketches is courtesy of the Footprint Tibet handbook by Gyurme Dorje.
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