Returning with the Prayer Flags. Solo Show. PS: Space, Athens. 2021

This project evolved from my previous project SKIN, BONES + Flesh, influenced by my experience of COVID and screen time, which fostered separation rather than unity. Inspired by Tibetan prayer flags, I aim to create a sense of oneness in exhibition spaces. Paintings become tools to reconnect people with their bodies and foster connection. The flags create a global dialogue by allowing communities, who I stencil, to track their portraits via Instagram.

In November 2021, after returning from a 6-month residency in Greece, I performed with my band GROUNDless at my final exhibition to offer a new way of experiencing the work.

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IG: groundlessmusic

IG: prayer.flags

This vision has evolved into the project Human Thread, featuring 2x2m silicon pieces simulating human skin, hung across skyscrapers in cities like New York and London as living memorials to peace, love, and connection.

Performance by GROUNDless at the Exhibition: Returning of the Prayer Flags. PS: Space, Athens, 2021.

"Together at last". 212cmx120cm. Acrylic On Canvas. Poros, Greece, 2021

Participate in a world-wide collective bodyscape in the form of prayer flags! Participants (and up to 5 members of their family and friends) will make partial tracings of their bodies (ie. hands, heads, outlines of hips, etc.) onto a canvas from the comfort of their home which I will then form into paintings. Your prayer flag will then be combined with others from my travels around the world and I will hang the flags between buildings similar to Tibetan flags. “They reflect a Human thread of prayer and unity to celebrate the human body across borders. It is a message of love, peace and local community.”

"Dancing Queen". 2M X 2M. Acrylic On Canvas. Poros, Greece, 2021

To participate:

The prayer flag needs to be at least 6ft x 6ft or 2m x 2m . To see an example of one please click here: Prayer flag link

Make sure you and any other member of your friends and family who are traced onto the prayer flag sign the back of the canvas.

If you have an Instagram account, please also clearly print the IG username on the back of the canvas or a separate piece of paper so that I can tag you with your prayer flag. You can also track the process at the following Instagram page: prayer.flags

Please email me for the POSTAL ADDRESS at:

norah@norahdineen.com

Please email me also if you have any questions. To understand the process more and to see a video giving instructions, please go to this IG link: prayer.flags