Seven Valleys 2019. Iron, aluminum, ceramic, rubber, and glass. 7 mobile sculptures, each approximately 0.9 x 2.3 x 2.5 m.
The work is inspired by The Conference of the Birds, a poem written by the 12th-century Persian poet and mystic Farid ud-Din Attar. The poem narrates the perilous journey of a group of birds, which takes them through seven valleys: quest, love, knowledge, detachment, unity, wonder, and finally poverty and nothingness. The journey of the birds is an allegory for our own life journey and our search for truth. Like the birds in this story, we may fly together, but the journey itself will be different for each of us.
“The home we seek is found in eternity; The Truth we seek is like a shoreless sea, of which your paradise is but a drop. This ocean can be yours; why should you stop? Deluded by dreams of the evanescent dew? The secrets of the sun are yours, but you are content with motes caught in its rays. Turn to what truly lives, reject what seems. What matters more, the body or the soul? Be whole: desire and journey to the All.”
(small excerpt from the Conference of the Birds)
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