Black on Black Tibetan Calligraphy

Title:
Karma

Chinese ink layering on heavy water-colour paper, 52x66 cm 2007.

The larger illuminated uchen letters translates as ‘Karma’, smaller text in various sizes and script styles translates as ‘cause and effect’.

The idea of this piece is to explain the fact that Karma is manifest on many levels of our being, positive and negative, there is personal karma to each individual, as well as collectively as a family, city, country and so on.

There is no rule to say when good or bad karma will ripen, only that all the right causes and conditions come together to manifest that result of ones own or collective past actions.

Karma is part of the interdependent origination cycle of ones very being. Contemplating karma is a useful to assessing and taking responsibility for ones own actions.