Votive Vote      Interactive Installation            © Radha Sahar
           650mm x 650mm x1400mm
wooden structure and installed objects in six altars 

Result; public votes counted at The Suter Gallery - winner, Nature
Result; public votes counted at Lake Taupo Museum - winner, Nature

At both galleries, votes were spread across all six altars in a similar
order of favourtism; the artist has kept a record.

 Peace Prayer Wheel       (Available for hire)            © Radha Sahar
           900mm x 900mm x900mm.  Acrylic & metallic on plastic cylinder mounted on a lazy Susan
People write prayers for peace, place them in the cylindar, then spin it.
Hear Sahar's musical composition Peace Prayers, as you take part.
Prayers will build coloured layers as the sculpture travels to various places and events:
each represented by a different coloured paper.
The above photograph was taken when it was first installed and no one had yet taken part.

         
          
Children participating...
People of all ages enjoy this interactive work. You can now see the first layer growing - (terra cotta coloured card).

To Water my Roots     (Available for hire)            © Radha Sahar
2meters x 500mm Canvas and card petals, wooden hobs, wire, concrete, clay pots, bark chips.
An interactive installation where people are invited to think of something on their minds -(a challenge or situation etc.), then to pick one of the petals from the flowers and turn it over. On the back a virtue is named. They then may take the appropriate card about that virtue from the flowerpots nearby. The card contains a passage about the virtue for one's spiritual nourishment.

This piece was extreemly popular during the exhibition, with people returning to participate several times. As they do, the installation changes visually: the flowers lose all their petals and hidden messages are revealed on the flower hobs.
Hear Sahar's music as you take part.

Participation Prayer Wheel        (Available for hire)            © Radha Sahar
Radha Sahar's works often feature sculptural elements, and so are hard to define as a painting or a sculpture. The Participation Prayer Wheel is a good example. It is constructed of three interlocking wooden circles in a shape Sahar calls a 'concentrix'.

It sits flat on a plinth. Depending on how you place the inner two reversible cirlces,
64 secular, inclusive-language prayers may be found.

Youth particpate...