I had intended to post the verses from Luke under chris's blazing tree, but I had some difficulty--my computer's fault. So just consider these verses in light of the discussion about tree imagery...
Then Jesus asked, what is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? It is like a mustard seed which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree and the birds of the air perched in its branches. Luke 13:18-19
Secondly, I read the following note in a Coleman Barks introduction to the organization of a book of Rumi poems. I think this says better what I attempted to pinpoint yesterday about the triking qualities of Shaker and Ethiopian drawings...in the conversation Seth and Chris initiated surrounding the Shaker trumpet drawing.
"...these poems are not monumental in the Western sense of memorializing moments; they are not discrete entities but a fluid, continuiously self-revising, self-interrupting MEDIUM. They are not so much ABOUT anything as spoken from WITHIN something."
Of course now that I write this I think of Seth's project.
Posted by barbara at May 20, 2004 11:13 AM