A new work

Paulus Berensohn, the current Windgrove Artist-in-Residence, has just completed this small batik with running stitch (approximately 35 cm/ 14 inches square). The title is: “The Current of Universal Being”.

When asked to pick a poem to accomany the photo of this work, he chose the following:

Variation on a Theme by Rilke
(The Book of Hours, Book 1, Poem 1, Stanza 1)

A certain day became a presence to me;
there it was, confronting me — a sky, air, light:
a being. And before it started to descend
from the height of noon, it leaned over
and struck my shoulder as if with
the flat of a sword, granting me
honor and a task. The day’s blow
rang out, metallic or it was I, a bell awakened,
and what I heard was my whole self
saying and singing what I knew: I can.

Denise Levertov