Top - Interior view of the John Coltrane House in Philadelphia John Coltrane spent the final years of his life at this residence; the house is still under Coltrane family ownership. Bottom - Sanford Biggers Pray Rug, 2001 Various colored sands, dimensions variable, approc. 40 x 15 feet This work is one a series of ephemeral floor works in sand that exemplify Biggers’ fascination with the ephemeral in both Buddhist and practices (via the practice of creating sand mandalas) and the nature of performance, from the ritual creation of mandalas, to hip-hop and other ways in which Africans “perform” in Western culture.