Jim Nickel


The Vajra drawings, 2018 and 2023				View images in sequence \| Return to Main Gallery
A Vajra is a Tibetan ritual object symbolizing spiritual teachings, endless creativity, and skillful means. It can be used as a spiritual weapon for protection in this world and is often wielded by deities to defeat ignorance or internal obstacles to enlightenment. Vajra represents the indestructible power of truth. These drawings apply an abstract Vajra in the form of a pointed black and white system to a variety of flea-market visual items, chiefly foxed, water-damaged, or torn reproduction prints. The symbolic action of the abstract Vajra varies slightly from piece to piece, depending on how the prints are intended and the meanings that result.

The City Swell (Vajra Drawings)	Portrait of the Sargeat (Vajra Drawings)	Sea Bathing at Ostend (Vajra Drawings)	Mt. Corcoran (Vajra Drawings)	Niagara (Vajra Drawings)	The Arguments (Vajra Drawings)	The Balloonist (Vajra Drawings)

The Egyptian King’s Daughter (Vajra Drawings)	Charles I in the Studio of Van Dyke (Vajra Drawings)	By the Seaside (Vajra Drawings)	A Visit to the Mares (Vajra Drawings)	Haines Falls 4 (Vajra Drawings)	Haines Falls 1 (Vajra Drawings)	Haines Falls 2 (Vajra Drawings)

Hotel Kaaterskill 1 (Vajra Drawings)	Hotel Kaaterskill 2 (Vajra Drawings)	Haines Falls 3 (Vajra Drawings)	Osborne Curtis House (Vajra Drawings)	Brady’s Church (Vajra Drawings)	Her Glance (Vajra Drawings)	Guernsey’s House (Vajra Drawings)

HasBrouck’s House (Vajra Drawings)	McCausland’s Ship Yard (Vajra Drawings)	Osborn Curtis’s House (Vajra Drawings)	Walter Crane’s House (Vajra Drawings)	The Locusts (Vajra Drawings)

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