Limited Edition Giclee Print

80 units

W 14 1/8 “ x 17 ½” (available also in smaller size)

Original: ink, gouache, coffee stains, gold leaf, watercolors on paper.

This painting was made for my daughter Yael’s birthday, at her request. I tried it first with my version of Half Uncials alphabet, then another version with italics, because Italics seem a bit closer to the flowing Arabic/Farsi original (Rumi poem #2).

It turns out that some Muslims have reservations about Coleman Barks’ translation, saying that the original poem says, “out beyond ideas of faith and heresy” rather than “wrongdoing and rightdoing”. I respectfully acknowledge this issue, but I find that Barks’ rendering is so beautiful, and is loved by so many people, that its not being perfectly faithful to the original should be OK. Hopefully, Rumi would have approved of all of us loving his poem in this version.