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Owen Leong
Ritual Coordinates (kashyapa)
2016
Plaster, quartz crystals, steel
34 x 20 x 20 cm
Owen Leong
Ritual Coordinates (prithvi)
2016
Plaster, quartz crystals, steel
40 x 20 x 20 cm
Owen Leong
Ritual Coordinates (apaan)
2016
Plaster, quartz crystals, steel
30 x 20 x 20 cm
Owen Leong
Ritual Coordinates (vitarka)
2016
Plaster, quartz crystals, steel
42 x 20 x 20 cm
Owen Leong
Ritual Coordinates (varada)
2016
Plaster, quartz crystals, steel
28 x 20 x 20 cm
Owen Leong
Emotional Geometry, 1-25 June 2016, Artereal Gallery.
Photographer: Zan Wimberley. Courtesy of Artereal Gallery.
These works are invocations of Ritual Coordinates. Each hand cast sculpture holds special symbolism as a mudra, a symbolic or ritual restorative gesture in Buddhism, with jagged extrusions of crystalline shards thrusting from each wrist.