REALMS is a landscape practice
(design, research, teaching, making).



Tied Across Time
Shifting Lubra
Complexities of Flood Disaster
A Landscape that has Never Existed
Trajectories of Practice Across Time
Agencies of the Present
Landscape is Knowledge
Fuel and the Himalayan Future
Open-ended Landscape
Belonging/Not Belonging
Emerging Hybridity & the New Vernacular
Willow and Water
Ascent
At the Meeting of Earth and Sky
Passage & Discovery
Agency of a Path
Transient Materials
Fagopyrum tataricum

About


Mark

Ascent



2014
Upper Mustang, Nepal


These maps represent passage through the sacred geographies of Nepal’s Upper Mustang along the Kali Gandaki river in 2014. Each diagram represents a village surrounded by the circular boundaries of its own sacred realm. These are manifested in the material world by a series of sacred infrastructures such as chhorten (stupa). These chhortens serve multiple purposes, many invoking the protection of deities and guarding against malignant spirits.

In Upper Mustang, chhorten are made from stone and adobe and painted with clay pigments. Each village has a unique color palette formed by the local avaibility of these pigments. In each map, the circlular boundary of the village sacred realm is colored with the village palette.




Mark