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Dance for Joy

Isis dancing with Old Father Thames. Leaded glass sculpture by Kay Gibbons.
This panel has been produced in a ‘kintsugi’ fashion, after the Japanese art of bonding broken ceramics with gold.
Beauty in fracture.. Broken beauty...

A Poem for Trinity Sunday, selected by Piers Northam. Written by the Persian poet , Hafiz. (1325-1390) and gently amended by Piers to refer to the Three persons of the Trinity.
The invitation to ‘dance’ is based on an early Church theology of ‘perichoresis’ – rotation or circular movement (hence dance) within the relationship of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit (The Holy Trinity of God). The early Greek Theologians of the Church, led by St. Gregory Nazianzus – one of the Cappadocian Fathers- helped Christians to discover the relationship of pure love between the Father, the Son(Jesus) and the Holy Spirit. This Love energizes all that God has created as it pours itself in the sheer joy of life. It becomes a dance which carries us into the fullness of the joy of God and therefore leads us to see that love and joy at the heart of our own life. So we are invited to the dance of life in which we are encompassed with the swirling love of God.

Created for Joy – Hafiz

I sometimes forget
that I was created for joy.

My mind is too busy,
my heart too heavy
for me to remember
that I have been called to dance
the sacred dance of life.

I was created to smile,
to love,
to be lifted up
and to lift others up.

O Sacred Three
disentangle my feet
from all that ensnares.
Free my soul
that we might dance
– and that our dancing
might be contagious.

‘She smiles into corners …’

Art/glass sculpture by Kay Gibbons, photo by Kay

Kay muses on the moon
…’She smiles into corners…’

Half-past three,
The lamp sputtered,
The lamp muttered in the dark.
The lamp hummed:
‘Regard the moon,
La lune ne garde aucune rancune,
She winks a feeble eye,She smiles into corners.
She smoothes the hair of the grass.
The moon has lost her memory.

from ‘Rhapsody on a windy night, by T S Eliot.
[Poetry Society version]

Last year my Artweeks theme was lunar imagery in TSEliots poem ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’.
This piece is titled ‘She smiles into corners….’
I imagined the moon traversing the night sky and illuminating the dark landscape beneath…patchwork fields , spines of mountain ridges, outstretched branches reaching skyward to stroke the face of the moon , ripples in the sand on the shoreline ..
..hidden corners on the dark canvas awaiting the radiant moon to dispel shadows and ‘smile into corners..’
Through colour and abstract form , through cornered shapes and spaces I have attempted to curate Eliot’s words into a glass recreation.

(detail)

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