A reminder to honor the magical offering of earth’s fruiting and vegetal bodies. All vegetables go to heaven.

Risograph poster on cream paper.

Vegetable Parinirvana is a performance piece by Rachel Corry from 2007 titled in which 15 costumed participants paraded up Strawberry Hill in Golden Gate Park and settled into a Tableaux Vivant for 70 minutes of silent meditation. The work was based on an ink scroll masterwork by the same name painted by Ito Jakuchu in Japan in the undetermined late 1700s. This was an unusual take on a common Buddhist scene of the death and parinirvana, but this time with the characters rendered as vegetables. Jakuchu’s family were produce vendors and his work is likely both pious and humorous.

Image is uncentered on 11 X 17. Mails flat.