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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090508
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090705
DESCRIPTION:[ More info at : http://montalvoarts.org/exhibitions/kalpa/ ] F
 or the exhibition KALPA: TIME\, Hirokazu Kosaka manipulates a set of print
 s from an ongoing community-based project called Ruin Map in Los Angeles\,
  Seattle\, Pennsylvania and San Jose. As part of Ruin Map participants are
  invited to draw from memory the site of their childhood. The artist then 
 transforms the drawings into traditional woodblock prints on handmade pape
 r.In this Project Space exhibition\, the original woodblock prints are giv
 en new life and new meaning by the artist through the addition of thousand
 s of poppy seeds. Kosaka s use of poppy seeds refers to a story told by Bu
 ddha to explain the principle of kalpa. Kalpa is a Sanskrit word meaning a
 eon or a long period of time. In Buddha s account of kalpa a huge\, empty 
 cube measuring 16 miles on each side\, is formed at the beginning of kalpa
 . Once every 100 years a tiny poppy seed is placed in the cube and yet the
  cube is not filled before the kalpa ends. By adding poppy seeds to these 
 prints\, Kosaka builds a symboli
DTSTAMP:20090611T132917
LOCATION:Project Space Gallery\, 15400 Montalvo Rd.\, Saratoga CA 95071-015
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SUMMARY:KALPA: TIME
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