Transmissions

'My photographs image existing tendencies within culture. The condom is a barrier that prevents organisms from moving through it. Blocked from procreation, they will eventually die. Although globalization is a contemporary topic (though not an exclusively contemporary phenomenon), we are also in a period of building walls. These walls can be physical (such as that proposed to keep Mexicans Mexican and Americans American), but more often they are rhetorical, social, or cultural. I was once told that I would never understand Buddhism because I was not Asian; but if we place Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in impermeable, sterile containers, they will eventually die in the same way that spermatozoa and viruses do, and it won't matter which they were perceived to be.' —from Appropriate Buddha by David Garneau and Lee Henderson; BlackFlash Magazine, September, 2007