Pilgrimage in Odd Places!

Check out artist Julie Puttgen’s 14th Street Pilgrimage. These amazing tsa-tsas will be migrating around 14th Street as part of the Art in Odd Places festival  (Oct 1-10). If you see one send us a photo!

From Julie’s website (www.turtlenosedsnake.com):
Tsa-tsas are miniature versions of Buddhist stupas, or markers of sacred space.  In Bhutan, where I bought the mold I use to make my tsatsas, they are usually produced in batches of 108, to mark an important occasion or intention, and then carefully placed around temples and natural landscapes as offerings. In setting out 108 tsatsas along 14th Street, I say: mindful attention to small features of the urban landscape is a catalyst for experiencing sacred space, and – more radically – for causing it to occur.

I am discovering that 14th St has a lot of auspicious tsatsa spots, including ornate ledges in the doorways of the old city; disused corners of Catholic facades; utilitarian structures like standpipes and phone booths; and the hands of a heroic-sized Buddha and Superman who are practically neighbors on the same block.

A story from the High Line:

Hello!
I found this tsatsas below the highline on 14th st. Taking the elevator up I noticed it outside the yellow glass, and rode the elevator back down to check it out. I love finding things and this was a wonderful, day-making, sky-brightening find! I have number 28 out of 108, and plan to set it out somewhere new.
Thanks for the well wishes!
Aviva

Art in Odd Places 2011: RITUAL is guest curated by Kalia Brooks, MoCADA Director of Exhibitions and Trinidad Fombella, El Museo Del Barrio Exhibitions Manager/Assistant Curator. Festival Producer, Lucia Warck Meister. Founder/Director, Ed Woodham.

Art in Odd Places (AiOP) aims to present art that stretches the boundaries of communication in the public realm by presenting artworks in all disciplines outside the confines of traditional public space regulations. AiOP reminds us that public spaces function as the epicenter for diverse social interactions and the unfettered exchange of ideas. www.artinoddplaces.org

LAST CHANCE TO SEE PILGRIMAGE & FAITH

Pilgrimage & Faith: Buddhism, Christianity & Islam
Closes October 24, 2011 | Visit: rmanyc.org/pilgrimage for more info!

  • October 6
  • , 2011
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