Golden Lion, 2009

from the series Beauty is a Beast

collage: 555 cats and kittens (from magazines), 1 lion (poster)

"In each of the lion's eyes, in its ears, limbs, and so forth, down to each and every single hair, there is a golden-lion. All the lions embraced by each and every hair simultaneously and instantaneously enter into one single hair. Thus in each and every hair there are an infinite number of lions. Furthermore, each and every hair containing infinite lions returns again to a single hair. The progression is infinite, like the jewels of Celestial Lord lndra's Net; a realm-embracing-realm ad infinitum is thus established, and it is called the realm of lndra's Net."

~ from The Treatise on the Golden Lion  by Fazang, 7th century