| Affairs
of the Heart – A Journey
I have no
idea where my current heart condition came from, except
that my father died from something similar and maybe I
just inherited it. It has come suddenly and from nowhere.
The doctors say that it is not my fault, and yet I know,
“within my heart”, that there is something I need to
learn from this experience.
The heart
is the place where love resides, if you believe the poets.
I do know what it is like to be sick at heart, (when I
have had to move from a happy home, or have lost a beloved
pet). I do know what a broken heart feels like – it
actually hurts physically. I do know what it feels like
when my heart jumps for joy at receiving ecstatically good
news. So I want to explore some of these ideas through my
art, and maybe I will come close to understanding why my
heart isn’t working as well as it used to, and what I
can do about it.
| Extract
from a poem by Rumi . . .
Love
has no other desire but to fulfill itself.
But if you love and must needs have desires, let
these be your desires:
To melt and be like a running brook that sings its
melody to the night.
To know the pain of too much tenderness.
To be wounded by your own understanding of love;
And to bleed willingly and joyfully.
To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give
thanks for another
day of loving;
To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's
ecstasy;
To return home at eventide with gratitude;
And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in
your heart
And a song of praise upon your lips. |
Affairs
of the Heart – a Journey
is the working title of a show I intend to complete in
2012 or 2013. The first in the series was on show in
Pentimento, a show by Connections Fibre Artists in Salmon
Art Public Art Gallery in British Columbia, from November
5 to 25, 2011.
Here is
another work in process:
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