The stupa is not only a symbol of the body of the Buddha,” wrote the Delhi and Berlin dealer and artist Peter Nagy in a 1999 essay on Shechet, “but also a concrete manifestation of Mount Meru (the mythological mountain at the center of the universe); a reliquary which verges on architecture; a cosmological diagram in three dimensions.” Arriving at the Dieu Donné workshop in New York in 1997 on one of that institution’s Lab Grants (she has returned some 20 times), Shechet produced flat pulp-paper pieces in blue and white to resemble architectural blueprints, adapting and overlapping plans of actual stupa shrines to create mandala-like images.

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