
First Draft - Tsering Yangzom Lama
First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing
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The Cop and the Nameless Saint
The coop is based on a real statue that i saw at the ribbon museum in 20 12 or so. It's part of their permanent collection, but it's not always on display. All this statue said was, fifteenth century, a mahasida, which is a kind of a saint. We didn't know the name, we don't know the history. And i think that captured for me the way in which tabetan civilization has been transformed and decontextualized as well. So i also wanted to say that theft is not even possible, that this goois doing something will capture many, many ideas through one single object.
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