![]() ![]() To take a closer look at the reflective surfaces that host the various geometrical shapes is to realize that the mirror has been shattered in what seems like the ultimate gesture materializing both Monir’s avant-garde practice and her forever young and playful spirit. Thus, the triangle becomes a symbol of harmony representing the soul and the three forms of action: mental, physical and verbal, while the square is synonymous with stability, the four cardinal points and the four seasons. Each of the shapes possesses mathematical attributes and consequently, its own meaning. Drawn from Monir’s childhood memories of her nanny wearing a microscopic Quran page medallion pinned to her sleeve, these adornments remind us of the sacred geometry principles that have been at the core of the artist’s practice for the past five decades. Suspended from the frame of several works are pendants that mirror the geometrical shapes of the works from which they hang. Reminiscent of such gates, Monir’s mirror mosaic representations of geometrical figures are framed by curtains of reverse-painted plexiglass strands that one imagines could oscillate in the wind. People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch,Įxcerpted from a poem by 13th century Sufi poet Rumi, The Breeze at Dawn Has Secrets to Tell You stands as a reminder that the changes we strive for lie within our hands, as thresholds that demand to be crossed, opportunities to be seized. The sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty.The Breeze at Dawn Has Secrets to Tell You “Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love. Inside you, there’s an artist you don’t know about… say yes quickly, if you know, if you’ve known it from before the beginning of the universe.” You are not meant for crawling, so don't. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew. “There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. I’m not one of them.” ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi Someone sober will worry about things going badly. “Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded. Listen to them.”Īnd try to see a treasure in everyone.” ― Rumi Don't go back to sleep!Īcross the doorsill where the two worlds touch, ![]() “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.” Come, yet again, come, come.īut listen to me. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. In it is hidden mercy.Ĭome, come, whoever you are. Then tender like the evening star.” ― Rumi I am your flower garden and your water too Love comes with a knife, not some shy question, and not with fears for its reputation! Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies. “The lion is most handsome when looking for food. ― Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah…it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.” ― Rumi If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished? Move within,īut don't move the way fear makes you move. “Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.” Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see. “Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.” ― Rumi The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves. When you feel you cannot even bear one more minute,īecause it is the time and place that the course will divert! That you are alive in such a limited way. ![]() The ocean takes care of each wave till it gets to shore.īe a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. “The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul.Ī mountain keeps an echo deep inside. “You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go, words are no preparation. ![]() You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you,īut sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”* ― Rumi “I know you're tired but come, this is the way. ![]()
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