A Sacred Geography: Sonnets of the Himalaya and Tibet



about the book the sonnets
“A Sacred Geography: Sonnets of the Himalaya and Tibet is borne out of years I’ve lived in the Nepal Himalaya and in Tibet. These sonnets are written in homage to places on the edge of things. Each locale invoked through these poems has made me more attentive to the stories that live within a landscape. These places are touchstones. I have chosen the sonnet-as-form, in part, because these poems are an act of love. They are offerings, written in the spirit of ritual and with the knowledge that, like love, landscapes must be true to change.”
        -Sienna Craig


“In the Spring of 1996 my daughter, Sienna, led me up the largest, deepest gorge on Earth, to the walled Kingdom of Lo in Nepal's Mustang district, on the border with Tibet. Over the years, I held these images of the Tibetan and Himalayan landscape - its sacred geography - in mind, hoping my expreience would translate into art. In 2003, inspired by the natural colors of the landscape as well as a thousand foot long wall of boulders etched with Tibetan prayers -mani - that was washed in streaks of sacred mineral colors, I made hand formd sheets of paper. A book began to take shape.“
        -Mary Heebner

 

In June 2006, the exhibit "Mani Wall and A Sacred Geography" opened at the UCLA Fowler Museum. This installation featured paintings, the artist book by Mary Heebner and Sienna Craig, along with photography by Macduff Everton.

Read a press release from the exhibition.

A portion of sales of A Sacred Geography will help support projects in the Himalaya and Tibet through DROKPA.
Sienna Craig is co-founder of this non-profit corporation.

 

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