About This Print
Ay-O has immersed the "Heart Sutra" in seven colors of squares. At the bottom of the print the mantra
掲諦掲諦波羅掲諦羅僧掲諦菩提莎婆呵 (gate gate paragate parasamgate bodhi svaha!) is written.
“Form is emptiness, emptiness is form,” insists the Heart Sutra, the most popular Buddhist scripture and emptiness, or "nothingness," was a major theme for the Daoist and Zen-influenced Fluxus artists, permeating their work.1
1 NYU Grey Art Gallery, 2011 exhibition Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/exhibits/fluxus/copy/FluxusSectionals.pdf
Print Details
| IHL Catalog | #819 |
| Title or Description | 般若心経 (Heart Sutra) |
| Series | |
| Artist | Ay-O (b. 1931) |
| Signature | Ay-O (pencil lower right) |
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| Publication Date | 1981 |
| Edition | 11 of 35 |
| Publisher | unknown |
| Printer | possibly Okabe Print Editions |
| Impression | excellent |
| Colors | excellent |
| Condition | excellent |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Genre | modern print - silkscreen |
| Format | |
| H x W Paper | 14 1/2 x 11 1/8 in. (36.8 x 28.6 cm ) |
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