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Loved exploring San Francisco. These great street art works where lit up by cloudless azure blue skies, my favourite works from Haite Ashbury and the Mission district.

Images of the community I am able to support through the work Bells Of Mindfulness artwork. I have commissioned the ancient tradition of melodic, forged-metal bells, 1000 of them in fact. The bell-making craft of Kutch originated in Sindh, over a thousand years ago, Today, the highly-polished and finely-tuned bells hang in entranceways and many local hang bells at their doors to ward off negativity or evil spirits. While the quality of a bell’s tone is a reflection of the artisan’s mastery.  These beautiful objects, along with the cranes will create a participatory installation in the trees  in June at the Montalvo Arts Centre.

As a part of Bells Of Mindfulness installation, I am making 1000 origami cranes. There are connections to the Fly Me Up To Where You Are project, as  the cranes are left, exposed to the elements they slowly dissolve and become tattered as the wish is released. In this way they are related to the prayer flags of India and Tibet. Bells of Mindfulness is an ongoing process based work that will become participatory to the local Californian community in July for Art In The Grounds 2013.

These delicious little hand made objects are my new raw material, alongside twigs, paper cranes, ribbons and trees. These bells support fair trade and the artisan community in India’s northwestern frontier. The sound of 1000 bells will sounds out through the grounds creating the Bells Of Mindfulness in Montalvo for the Come Healing exhibition. 

This exhibition is presented as part of Flourish: Artists Explore Wellbeing, a multi-disciplinary programming initiative organized by the Lucas Artists Residency Program in collaboration with Montalvo’s Education Department. Through exhibitions, conversations, performances, and workshops join us as we explore the questions: how can we live meaningful, happy and healthy lives? How can we flourish?

After 24 hours travel im here, arrived to my home for three months at Lucas Artist Residency. Where my new work will take place, in amongst research trips over the US. Staying with Max GImblett in New York and hopefully working with Post Commodity in New Mexico. These pix are my first day, 13 hours on a plane, the view from my studio and the dinner via the culinary fellow. Its one special residency.

Really going to miss my studio. There has been a lot of work come out of this little hive of activity over the past few months. Now its all shut up shop till September. Heading to the Montalvo Arts Residency for 3 months to make a new work. Set in the trees with the rays of the sun as  support. keep an eye out for Bells Of Mindfulness.

Looking through the kaleidoscope of Saṃsāra Temples, 3 works that make a one work looking through the depths and worlds the temples contain. Captured by Laura Forest and on show at Melanie Roger Gallery for one more week.

TIFFANY SINGH | Samsara
10th Apr 2013 - 4th May 2013

Copper, Kauri, Beeswax, Salt, Flowers, Mala & Steel

Fly Me Up To Where You Are at night in Aotea Square for the Auckland Festival 2013. Made by thousands of Auckland school children, the flags made a rainbow at night. The flags were also featured in the Big Little City Sumer of 2013 piece. 

Samsāra Temples The concept of samsara is closely associated with the belief that one continues to be born and reborn in various realms in the form of a human, animal, or other being (depending on karma). These details were captured by Laura Forest at Melanie Roger Gallery.

TIFFANY SINGH | Samsara
10th Apr 2013 - 4th May 2013

Copper, Kauri, Beeswax, Salt, Flowers & Mala

This is Wihaan our Buddhist temple who lives in Alten Reserve in Auckland City, shot by my friend Rabi.  She has had a tough life, been set fire to and vandalised on multiple occasions. We have lovingly restored her and she is fast becoming a part of the community. She is half way through blue and will change to purple in the upcoming months. She was commissioned by Auckland Council but is fast transcending her role as an artwork and becoming a functioning temple. We are very proud of her.

Saṃsāra Buddhas. Captured by the talented Laura Forest. On show at Melanie Roger Gallery. These are new works inspired by the cyclical nature of the medium that means works can be cast and recast. These buddhas are made from the wax taken off the Saṃsāra temples that also feature in this show.

TIFFANY SINGH | Samsara

10th Apr 2013 - 4th May 2013

The audio visual work Through The Veil I Hear You Call which was initially created for Art In The Dark. This iteration of it was installed for the Auckland Museum for the Auckland Festival 2013 event White Night. This work played on the wind currents that wrap around Pukekawa at this time of the year. The work was beautifully lit to create a vibrant natural instrument, for the audience to enjoy both an aural and visual experience.

Third change over at the Auckland Art Gallery, sees the completion of the  Orange box. Come in and leave your messages and creations for Red which will be featured for the next two months.

According to the view of these Asian religions our current life is only one of many—stretching back before birth into past existences and reaching forward beyond death into future incarnations. During the course of each life the quality of the actions (karma) performed determine the future destiny of each person. The Buddha taught that there is no beginning or end to this cycle. The goal of Asian religions is to escape this process, the achievement of which is called moksha. In popular use, Samsara [a westernized spelling] may refer to the world (in the sense of the various worldly activities which occupy ordinary human beings), the various sufferings thereof; or the unsettled and agitated mind through which reality is perceived.

Opens Tonight @ Melanie Roger Gallery