When I was making this box I collected several objects that relate to my experience of Buddhism. The carved Buddha (top left) was used by a group of friends in an informal study meditation group that I was part of. I attended a week of teachings by his Holiness the Dalai Lama on the nature of reality in Nottingham last year. The sketch book page has improvised wax seals added to the paper this represents the four seals. The dancer worked with me on a project where she used movement to represent the nature of water, underneath her is a dukar wheel from the Tashi Lhunpo Monastery in India. A dukar wheel is a parchment with a Buddhist prayer written by hand, folded and wrapped in color threads. The small painting is of a storm over a ruined castle and is a response to impermanence. The other objects are from my personal shrine.

All objects are seperate but connected.

The Tibetan word tendrel means interaction, interconnection, interrelation, interdependence, or interdependant factors. all things, all our experiences are tendrel which is to say that they are events that exist because of the relationship between interrelated factors.