Two Worlds In One

Copic and acrylic ink pen on paper and panel

8” X 10.5” X 1”

Extract of a poem in the body of the art by Rumi

(See Translation of the poem below):

Not a Christian or Jew or

Muslim, not Hindu

Buddhist, Sufi, or Zen.

Not any religion

or cultural system

I am not from the east

or the west, not out of the ocean

or up from the ground

not composed or elements at all

I do not exist

I am not an entity in this world

or the next

did not descend from

Adam and Eve or

any origin story. . . . .

first, last, outer, inner

only that breath breathing

human being