A week ago, my advanced studio class went with me up Rock Canyon park and we installed some prayer flags on the mountain side. I have been interested in Buddhist and Hindu religions for a long time; I have read many Vedas in trying to understand Eastern Philosophy and religion. One of the things which interests me is the connection between Tibetan religious life and so-called "Mormon" religious belief. I wanted to investigate connections beyond those of geographical local.
As a class, my teacher wanted us to propose and execute an "art adventure" with the class; we were to lead our class in something that would help us think about art. I have been thinking about these prayer flags for some time, except that Rebecca keeps telling me that it needs more thought. I was grateful for the chance to execute it with other people in order to explore some of the more formal and theoretical aspects of this idea in an academic setting.
Academics aside, I have studied Tibetan prayer flags and, like my brother, I am trying to explore orthopratic versus orthodotic sources and their relationship to the culture and theology of the culture. Tibetan flags have sources which reach back to pre-Buddhist (Hindu and Bonpo) philosophies and healing shamans. How and why has this custom become so important to Tibetan Buddhists over the millenia?
This video shows the seven of us putting up our personal prayers and then talking about it. I have since decided that I want to do this project on a massive scale involving as many from the community as I can. This project is about defining what our community understands as prosperity.
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