Through My Eyes                                                                                                                                                                                          * With all work on business stuff and tidying up in our studio I haven't had a chance to work on the sculpture of Tara Drolma this week.  It's amazing how much the mail can pile up!  I suppose if everything were written everywhere using the printing methods as at the Derge Parkhang there would be a bit less of it or it would be piled up in great stacks of leaves all the way to the ceiling!  In the meantime I 've thought a bit about the base of the sculpture of Tara Drolma. I'll put a bit of a ledge around the table much as the forms that are used to cast concrete on a sidewalk. Then I'll build up the base sculpting it into the whirling swirling  water of Yamdrok Yutso tossed in the wind with Tara Drolma pulling the cloth from beneath the surface. It should look just fine!             Tibetans are actually very accomplished working with clay in pottery; we can read of it here: http://en.tibettour.com.cn/geography/200412006628164455.htm . Alas they are not permitted even to sell their pottery along the streets of Lhasa even on the ground.  They are not allowed a booth and are even charged for putting dried grass on the ground to place their items on. It is no wonder that as in the movie Cry of the Snow Lion the narrator describes how it was difficult at first to even see Tibetans for everywhere one looked there were Chinese immigrants. please click here  to continue...                                                                                                                                                           * courtesy of A Luminous Diamond (Bright) Crystal Show productions. The information for                                                                           the sketches is  courtesy of the Footprint Tibet handbook by Gyurme Dorje.