BUFFALO, NY.- A stunning new installation by the artist Kathryn Walker has opened in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s Gallery for Small Sculpture. SANGHA is composed of more than one thousand miniature terracotta pots, each carefully painted and collaged by the artist. Finished in an array of patinas and textures, each work in the installation contains a fragment of a Tibetan prayer flag embedded in the surface. The installation evokes concepts of refuge, consciousness, and community—ideas at the core of human survival and civilization. Small earthenware pots are as old as civilization itself. The invention of clay pottery allowed for the preservation of essentials, enabling early communities to survive and flourish. For this installation, the artist used unglazed earthen pots from Mexico, each one individual in shape. The addition of a Tibetan prayer flag fragment to each pot is a gesture that evokes the long