2022

Acrylic & Flashe On Archival Paper

20” H x 16” W

Unframed

Shipping $35

Dervish 8 investigates themes that include: the city of Damascus, Rumi’s poetry, and Viriditas.

The city of Damascus was selected because it has meaning for me personally due to my own nomadic experience. Also, I was moved by my own state of despair as I witnessed from afar the diaspora of the Syrian refugees.

Through painting I want to feel their tragic story, to somehow create a space for their suffering and connect with empathy to their despair. I want to address, in a very insufficient way, the question: What is the role of suffering? I want to face their suffering (and probably my own) and then surround it with life, with the greening of Viriditas, and with hope.

I am motivated to paint the healing, the potential for transformation.