Roxy Rose Bends a Mirror & a Wheel of Joy in Gold

Roxy and the Melong (Mirror) installed at Rake The Dark Room, 2021. Documentation by Morgan Cuppet Michelson

Title: Roxy Rose bends a Mirror & a Wheel of Joy in Gold, 2021.

Material: Neon, mirror, motor

Wall Text: In looking for the river 🌀 the unity of the primordial state & the possibility of freedom in non duality, I found Roxy 🌹 Rose and asked her to bend a “Wheel of Joy” into golden neon.

On the obverse side of the mirror / melong - a particular symbol of Dzogchen practice representing the unity of the primordial state - a gankyil ( wheel of joy) whirls….The syllables HA A HA SHA SA MA -which close the gates of the six realms are written in the ancient script of Zhangzhung around the edge of the design.