Originally conceived as a painting, this large-scale bronze sculpture titled “Muted Expressions” is currently on view in “Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now.” Listen to Tsherin Sherpa (@tsherinsherpa) discuss why he decided to start working in the medium of bronze.    “Muted Expressions” was Tsherin Sherpa’s response to the devastating 2015 earthquakes in Nepal. Disembodied human hands and feet cluster together and appear as a single entity, evoking the unfortunate ones trapped under collapsed structures, with only their extremities visible. Here the gestures are mudras, symbolic or ritual hand poses in Hinduism or Buddhism. In this sculpture not only do they represent various Buddhist concepts such as compassion, argument, prayer, and witnessing, but also slight variations and contemporary gestures such as the “peace” and “rock on” signs.    Snake coils bind the limbs together in a confused mess reflecting the interconnectedness of the religious and the secular, traditional and contemporary...