Bill Kane "Em-39 Medicine Buddha 3", Photography

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Pigment on canvas
Edition: Multiple, Unframed.
Edition of 3

The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential … Read more Pigment on canvas
Edition: Multiple, Unframed.
Edition of 3

The Emanations series is an attempt to express the spiritual potential of the most essential aspect of photography: light. Each work in the series began its evolution as a scanned image of a Buddhist thangka—a spiritual painting of a Buddhist deity—which was then blurred and stretched until all that remained was a distilled image of color and form. These reduced images were then printed onto canvases, resulting in what Kane refers to as elemental “representations of the light bodies of the Buddhas.” See less