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Monday, 22 July 2013
Jayme McLellan's "Jealousy of Clouds" Inspired by Buddhist Parable
Posted on 16:00 by the great khali
THE WASHINGTON POST
By Mark Jenkins
WASHINGTON, DC---Clouds are ready-made metaphors for nature, ephemerality and the world we imagine above and beyond our daily lives. Jayme McLellan’s “Jealousy of Clouds,” a photo and video installation at Heiner Contemporary, conjures all those ideas but has a specific agenda. The artist, also an art teacher and the proprietor of Civilian Art Projects, has named the exhibition after “The River,” a parable by Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. The story, which McLellan has handwritten on the wall, is about a stream that wants to be a cloud but comes to realize that “what she had been looking for was already in herself.” [link]
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