Liliane Lijn
Homage to Milarepa   1972

61 x 61 x 51 cm

Laminated perspex base with light box underneath, mirror set into centre; perspex and optical glass prism figures.

This is a work in a series of sculptures called Rites of Passage.

Solo exhibition, Serpentine Gallery, London, 1976.

Jetsun Milarepa was a great Tibetan poet saint who lived around 1000 A.D. I read his teaching while living in retreat in Greece in the early 1960’s. His life and words were of great importance to me.