love entwined

2022
original artwork
transparent watercolor
arches cold-pressed cotton paper
22″ x 30″

“this is love:
to fly toward a secret sky,
to cause a hundred veils
to fall each moment.
First, to let go of life.
In the end, to take a step without feet;
to regard this world as invisible,
and to disregard what appears
to be the self.
heart, i said, what a gift it has been
to enter this circle of lovers,
to see beyond seeing itself,
to reach and feel within the breast.”

rumi