I derived inspiration from Tibetan knowledge that onyx can absorb poison. In this installation, onyx necklaces, represented by painted stones, lead up to a tree. The dying tree is touched by the onyx and healed.

Sacred Heart

A visit to the Tibetan medical museum greatly interested me as I am very interested in the human system- both the physical and spiritual body and how they work. Also, it is interesting for me that Tibetan (also Mongolian) medicine pictures image a human heart as a lotus. Asian and Western images of things are as different as day and night. I want to see these at same time in my work. There is the heart and the  reflection on water. This reflection is a lotus. I think Western images of anatomy are more about the physical body and Asian images of anatomy are more about the spiritual body. In my paper work, I made a head and hand and foot using tea, then made collages of a skull and hand and foot bones with layered silk. For me, the silk images are akin to the moving inner air in blood.