Part of the Series The Other Side of Mountains, 2025
Kalden Rangdröl Dhatsenpa x Le Lin
2025
Mountain: tarlatan cloth
254 cm x 254 cm x 114 cm (100” x 100” x 45”)
Prayer flags: silk screen print on cotton cloth (red, blue, white, green, yellow)
21.59 cm x 15.24 cm (8.5” x 6”)
Prayers papers: silk screen print on rice paper
7.62 cm x 7.62 cm (3” x 3”)
Kalden Rangdröl Dhatsenpa x Le Lin
2025
Mountain: tarlatan cloth
254 cm x 254 cm x 114 cm (100” x 100” x 45”)
Prayer flags: silk screen print on cotton cloth (red, blue, white, green, yellow)
21.59 cm x 15.24 cm (8.5” x 6”)
Prayers papers: silk screen print on rice paper
7.62 cm x 7.62 cm (3” x 3”)
This participatory installation takes the form of a vast cloth mountain, beneath which visitors gather to hurl rice paper copies of a father’s poetry into the air so that it may land on the hollow hill. The gesture echoes Tibetan Buddhist lungta (wind horse) practices of casting paper prayers into the wind—acts of devotion meant to disperse blessings across great distances. The cloth mountain itself is covered in custom printed prayer flags, another common lungta symbol. Though instead of Buddhist prayers, the flags are covered in poems written by Rangdröl’s late father, some in translation, others preserved in Tibetan. With each throw, participants become active carriers of these words, scattering them like the wind itself. Visitors are invited to take some of the compostable prayers and scatter them outdoors, at a high vantage point. The work transforms the exhibition space into a site of collective offering, memory, and renewal.
Instruction:
In this windless room I need you
to be the wind, grab some of my father’s
words and carry them out
and onto the peak
and scream
“KI KI SO SO”
In this windless room I need you
to be the wind, grab some of my father’s
words and carry them out
and onto the peak
and scream
“KI KI SO SO”
