James de Villiers
Johannesburg, South Africa
My art is a meditation on nature and an investigation of the forces that lie behind outward appearances
MessageCollection: The Hsien Prayer Print Portfolio
The Hsien Visual Prayer Portfolio is available to order through this site.
A collaboration between Nicholas Hauser and James de Villiers. Artwork by Nicholas Hauser. Printing and presentation portfolio boxes by James de Villiers.
Our portfolio presentation boxes are handmade and although we have a limited reserve stock, depending on demand, it may take up to a week to fulfil your order.
The cost of a Hsien Visual Prayer Portfolio is ZAR 20,000.
This price does not include shipping costs, so please enquire as to the full cost before ordering.
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Payment may be made through EFT. Please enquire regarding type of payment.
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You may also email us directly at [email protected] for your order or any queries.
Our Hsien Visual Prayers
for good governance,
conscience, meditation
and compassion.
Good governance of the self.
Good governance of your relationship to other people.
Good governance of your place in the pattern of existence, environment and energy.
There is a long history of human beings from all cultures petitioning images for an improvement in their futures and fortunes. We think perhaps of the great fetishes; Nkonde Nkisi, of the Golden Calf, Ganesha, the Crucifix, the Virgin.
Not forgetting “likes”, blue ticks and thumbs-up approvals of latter-day digital mediums.
Not forgetting “likes”, blue ticks and thumbs-up approvals of latter-day digital mediums.
Objects of sacrifice, devotion or appreciation
are not unfamiliar. Neither are our pre-determined
sequences of words, prayers, incantations and manifest verbal recitations.
If then, these spoken rituals embody an improved sense of security, comfort and well-being - and we believe we can utter or speak something better into existence; then why may we not likewise believe ourselves capable of looking, viewing, seeing, watching or gazing something into existence?
In short, could a design alone, perhaps function as
a potent prayer?
A picture prayer.
Thus, by simply looking at it briefly - or for an extended period of time - we might improve our optimism, our hope and our energy levels using the eye as the primary agent of acquisition and ultimately of transformation.
What this portfolio of original “Hsien” images simply seeks to do is say :
