Bodhi Unbound

Emerging from a decade of monastic life (2001–2011), Damchö initiated Bodhi Unbound as a site of philosophical and sensory inquiry: a meditation on the thresholds between freedom and restraint, form and formlessness.

Taking its name from Bodhi (‘awakening’) and the echo of ‘body,’ Bodhi Unbound explores how the rituals of dress and discipline shape the felt experience of the self. The material language of latex — drawn from the living serum of the rubber tree — offered Damchö a visceral medium through which to examine these tensions: binding and breath, containment and release.

Through this embodied enquiry, she reflects on the paradox that both spiritual precepts and sensual constraints seek liberation through forms of boundary. The moment of disrobing — whether from monastic robes or a latex skin — becomes a release not only from the garment, but from the perceptions that the body gathers around purity, propriety, and selfhood.

Bodhi Unbound sits within the instability of these thresholds, tracing how the body, the senses, and consciousness itself unfold through acts of binding, rupture, and reconstitution.