by Xiaolong Wong

from The MET

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, 1767 (detail)

An American in Prague (1997) // dir. George Duroy

cemetery flowers after the ice storm photography: Peter Fricke

“The Dream Temple represents a utopian place, the ideal destination at the end of a path towards spiritual discovery. A journey that culminates in the hi-tech entrance to the flow of consciousness of each living being. The finished temple, built out of dichroic glass, an ever-changing, iridescent surface, serves as a metaphor for both the body and consciousness. Beneath the temple, a vast bed of transparent glass fragments enhances the surreal light of the raised structure that appears magical and shining.”

koujayn by marta mamon & hair by marília rohr