Video

Corner Buddha

Karma Clarke Davis

1998, 10:00 minutes, colour/B&W, English

TAPECODE 614.04

A stranger in your own land. A nomad in the urban landscape.
Well-known banalities, corners of concrete, the stern modernist grid of a sewer grate, an abstract swirl of iridescence -- oil on a puddle, reexamined, re-envisioned.The images fade between a third-eye in the forehead of a Buddha-like image and as such speak of both an exterior and an interior journey. Suspended for a moment in time like an image poem in the mind's eye, these everyday images are transformed digitally into hopeful shrines.

Taken from the alternative pathways the artist sought in her disabled, literally broken state, Corner Buddha is a visual mantra of survival of the other, of finding beauty in the familiar, and overcoming the tediousness of the repeated voyage.

Ultimately, it speaks to the difficulty of living in a place which promised belonging but bred only familiarity.

The androgynous figure sits projected into space, levitating and meditative recalling the never ending cycle of appropriation and immigration.

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