2,500 years ago, Buddha meditated in the Forest of Uruvela, known today as the city of Bodh Gaya.

Five hundred years ago, Leonardo da Vinci pointed at the effect walls may have on the imaginative mind.

This project brings together both: a mundane wall in a city rich with spiritual and symbolic meaning.
Whereas abstraction has been developed in the West, the East used traditional storytelling — also in the crafts such as carpet weaving.

Reminiscent of an opaque filmstrip with a narrative lost in time, fourteen hand-knotted carpets need the viewer as a co-producer to read the writing of the stones.

Burkhard von Harder, 2025