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| | Monica De Cardenas: Past and future exhibitions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | The project is derived from the story of Ryökan, a Zen poet and monk who lived in the second half of the eighteenth century in Japan. |
 | | The only possessions of his that have survived, now preserved in a museum, are a bamboo bowl and a ball of silk (mari, in Japanese), embroidered with peonies and butterflies. |
 | | The mari, in this story, is thus a delicate object, embroidered with care with coloured threads that have the function of keeping the ball compact, but which, in turn, become worn. |
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