Sanskrit of the Body

NEW WORK

Black Water Sound

Unearthed

Patagonia


Khmer Faces


Fossillily


Laguna Salada



A series of 30” x 25” paintings using ochre pigment, acrylic, rag and japanese kozo paper
as well as 39" x 25" graphite on vellum drawings


I seek connections between human and earthen, the shared nature of our chemistries. I try to notice what is vivid and link that with a sensual and well-crafted process.

See the Paintings
A Sacred Geography:
Sonnets of the Himalaya and Tibet

A collaboration between Mary and Sienna Craig. Poetry printed letterpress on handmade pulp-painted paper with full color print in handmade cloth-bound clamshell box with reader's copy. Edition of 20.

UCLA Fowler Museum exhibition: “Mani Wall and A Sacred Geography."

Opens June 11 2006 . This exhibition will be concurrent with “Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama” also at the Fowler Museum.

Press release
Fowler Museum website

The Mani Wall series
Mani Wall
This series of paintings began with graphite drawings of an iris flower in all its phases. A flower is a beautiful thing. A flower’s life span is relatively short so it is easier to appreciate one complete living cycle, from tender bud to brittle detritus, to pod. I poured and brushed layers of color—sienna, grey and white—over the drawings so that the colors enveloped them. The images of flowers are my prayer, embedded in painted paper, still as a fossil, bone still, and drenched with the colors of the earth.

Mani Wall

see the series here