david eustace

tea in the Mojave with the Mahasatipatthana, or the four-fold path in forty-eight folds
rock, paper, wire, ink, 2020 - 2022

Installed in 2020 and retrieved in 2022, a host of regular brick-shaped rocks found at this remote site in the Mojave compressed two outstretched accordion books coated with tea and laid face-to-face against a piece of wire sculpted into a pattern reminiscent of the rising & falling contours of the surrounding mountains.

Running along the top & bottom of the two books are four key passages from Gautama Buddha’s ‘Mahasatipatthana’ (The Great Discourse on the Establishing of Awareness’, Digha Nikaya 22), describing how to observe the phenomena of rising and falling within your own body & mind.