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Mathematical Visual Poem

10,000 Dharmas Return

2013
Collection of the Gwacheon National Science Museum, Gwacheon, South Korea — acquired 2014
10,000 Dharmas Return — a cockroach divided by a man sitting in meditation equals the numeral one, with the characters for Buddha's mind brushed down the numeral, against the star field at the center of the galaxy
10,000 Dharmas Return, 2013. cockroach ÷ self = 1

The ten thousand dharmas return to the one. To what does the one return? The star field is the space between Scorpio and Sagittarius, the center of our galaxy; the border is a sunset shot through an airplane window; the characters down the stem of the numeral are 佛心, Buddha’s mind; the seal reads 物皆, Mool Kae.

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