Heart and moon

Rilke poem speaking to me today...

"I love you, gentlest of Ways,
who ripened us as we wrestled with you.

You, the great homesickness we could never shake
off,
you, the forest that always surrounded us,

you, the song we sang in every silence,
you dark net threading through us,

on the day you made us you created yourself,
and we grew sturdy in your sunlight…

Let your hand rest on the rim of Heaven now
and mutely bear the darkness we bring over you."

—Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy

Untitled, Ramallah

This *might* be the last of the Palestine series. I'm hoping to make a book out of them, or at least prints, if I can stop making new ones for a little while...

Studio shot

All the little scraps and edges from finished collages wind up looking like the beginnings of something new..