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Seven years ago, New York-based artist Biggers began to make works based on Buddhist passages, themes, and artifacts when he was first introduced to Buddhism during a two-year stay in Japan. Upon returning to the U.S. his interest only grew and his work was transformed.
For the last several years, he has identified his sculptures and installations as power objects. This term is borrowed from ethnographic studies and is used to describe an object that possesses extraordinary power, usually derived from constant worship, ritual, and reverence.
Biggers has begun to incorporate elements of the hip-hop culture into the notions of power objects and Tibetan sand paintings. His paintings differ in that instead of creating mandalas, he creates graffiti style sand paintings using the Sanskrit symbols for “OM” and video-tapes the creation of the piece—a process that takes up to 15 hours—from a bird’s eye view and then compresses the tape into a shorter version.