Liliane Lijn
Sound Rain Free Future   1963/4

28 x 23 x 16 cm

Letraset on painted wood cylinder, rollerbearings wood shaft, wood base. Words taken from a poem of Nazli Nour. Handheld Poem Wheels.

Poem Wheels were made while I was living in Greece. Many young people were arriving in Athens from Nepal and India and seeing these told me they resembled Tibetan Prayer wheels which I had never seen, but I was reading the life and songs of the great Tibetan poet saint Milarepa.