WE ARE ALL OF US ISLANDS IN THE DARK

cotton, linen thread, mull

48” x 48”

inspired by Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem ‘The Island III’:

Only what is within you is near; all else is far.
And this within: so packed and pressured,
barely contained, unsayable.
The island could be a star so insignificant

that space in its terrible blindness takes no note
and mindlessly destroys it.
Thus, unillumined and unheard,
expecting nothing

but that all this may yet come to an end,
it continues doggedly its self-invented course,
alone, outside the patterns made
by planets and the suns they orbit.