Reception: April 4, 6 - 8:30pm

Savannah-based artist Katherine Sandoz’ study of The Lotus Sutra, paired with her long-term survey of Coastal Empire floodplains, rivers, and ponds, inspires this most recent series of forty-four works on canvas. Originally written in Sanskrit, The Lotus Sutra is a revered final teaching of Buddhist scripture, which suggests that earthbound individuals may reach enlightenment in their lifetime. In the dharma (teaching of the nature of reality), the lotus personified is an actor in an unfolding drama and its theater, the universe. Speaking to us in a collage of images, the lotus “language” inspires these two series created over the last two years.