1977-
Dakini House
'Dakini
House', wooden doll's house, resin and fiberglass, life-cast
heads and breasts, dolls, jewels, brocades, lights and
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This is the most major of my 'Doll's House' series.
I took the colors of the rainbow for 7 rooms, related
them to the 7 chakras and placed a different dakini
within each one. The central chamber represents the
white light and the ninth chamber above it shows the
full spectrum of the blend of all colors. These last
two rooms house no dakinis because they represent going
beyond form, or the charkas above the head or the subtle
body. As well as relating to the charkas, the rooms
and their dakinis represent different elemental energies.
The life casts above are all of my own head, there are
7 faces altogether, for the 7 dakinis decorated with
appropriate symbolism, and arrayed after the fashion
of a Tibetan Stupa, with 7 levels beneath them. Here
the house as self is seen as full of dakini energy and
rainbow light.
- "Enchantments
of sunsets, the stars, iridescence of peacocks,
impossible dream houses. Aladdin's treasury and
the feast of Belshazzar, set in motion by that elusive
element of 'charm', stimulated by a perception of
esoteric wisdom.."
- Sir Roland Penrose, 1977.
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