These paintings were created from August 2019 through July 2020. At the beginning of each month I chose a poem of Hafiz from “The Gift” by Daniel Ladinsky that spoke to me about the feeling of that month. Then during the month I contemplated the poem and painted the painting. Some paintings revealed unexpected images and colors. It was an eventful year as the world entered into extreme experiences and questions of polarity, fear, silence, justice and community. I am very grateful for having started this work not knowing where it would take me and having to trust the flow of creative force.
All poems are from The Gift by Daniel Ladinsky, copyright 1999, used with permission.
May these poems accompany you through 2021 and teach you the truths that are so present in the work of the Persian Sufi poet Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad, who we know as Hafiz, (c.1320 – 1389).
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