COFFEE, PAST AND PRESENT
Mar 7th, 2007 by Jinja
COFFEE, PAST AND PRESENT:
By TOR VUTHA
Opening March 7 at 18:30
Centre Culturel Français
Like the past, every person in this contemporary world is working so hard to earn their living. It is such a marvelous thing to take a short break with a cup of coffee, I think.
While casting my eyes at the coffee, my mind is filled up with variety of graphical pictures; that’s the real images of the past along with the inscriptions (stories, and Buddha’s motto) and the strong beliefs held in religious myths of the past.
My description will be about the movements in each icon along with the yantra paper spelled with Pali for protections, and golden sheets to bring happiness and prosperity.
In reality, Buddha’s motto serves as food to support and control of our daily life, more especially, the burned color and torn paper portrays a series of ongoing past events. I finally came up with a decision to invite Buddhist monks to bless and cast a spell into all the icons to make each of them full of spirits and might.
Time keeps passing but the taste and color of coffee always sticks to my mind. Thus, I hope you all will be enjoying the view of these images.
Duration of Exhibition: March 8 – 31
(courtesy Centre Culturel Français)
from: What’s On
Tags:cambodia,buddhism,coffee
