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Ruminations
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Rumi
is one of the great spiritual masters and poetic geniuses of mankind. His poetry
is often classified as being of the Sufi spiritual path, an esoteric, ecstatic,
mystical path within Islam.
The RUMInations project was initiated as part of an effort to heal the world by presenting positive, public messages of unconditional love through public art. If we are allowed to be bombarded with sexist, materialist messages that harm us and wear our senses down, we certainly are entitled to use the same public space to present ideas from which any reader can be inspired to work for peace and unity.
Below are just a few examples of pieces in Brooklyn, and Chicago. Please be a part of the project by spreading Rumi's work wherever people need beautiful ideas and inspirations, and wherever the emptiness of commercial messages has polluted the landscape.
My favorite Rumi translations are by Nader Khalili and Coleman Barks.
Use pens, paint, stickers, chalk, or whatever is appropriate. Use caution, care,
and love when considering your medium and location. A piece written in chalk
on a sidewalk should offend no one or on a sticker over a tobacco or Army ad
should offend no one.
A spray-painted piece on a freshly primed wall may send the wrong message. The goal is to transform negative space or negative messages/images with positive messages in the appropriate media that can be universally appreciated.
Every now and then I will take up the brush or spray can to do a solo piece or a collaboration. Here are a few recent and older pics:
From "El Niño y El Sol" Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, Summer 2005, with Ricardo Cortés
Spraypaint/Stencil. Greenpoint, Brooklyn Summer 2003
Closeup of text: "Imagine a world where no one dies for America's greed"
Updated 15.August.2005 / Created and maintained by Ocote Soul Media