Paulus Berensohn, the current Windgrove Refugee-in-Residence, has just completed this small batik with running stitches (approximately 35 cm/ 14 inches square). The title is: "The Current of Universal Being". When asked to pick a poem to accompany the photo of this work, he chose the following: "Variation on a Theme by Rilke" (The Book of Hours, Book 1, Poem 1, Stanza 1) A certain day became a presence to me; there it was, confronting me -- a sky, air, light: a being. And before it started to descend from the height of noon, it leaned over and struck my shoulder as if with the flat of a sword, granting me honor and a task. The day's blow rang out, metallic or it was I, a bell awakened, and what I heard was my whole self saying and singing what I knew: "I can". Denise Levertov
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