Dervish, Alex Grey November 16, 2007, acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 inches In honor of the 800th anniversary of the Sufi poet, Rumi, I painted the ecstatic dance of the whirling dervishes.?My painting was part of a program at Kripalu Yoga Retreat Center featuring the musicians, Hudost and Shahram Shiva, translator of?Rumi's poetry.?The unique spinning Sufi practice demands the centeredness of the dancers?nd in my vision they?re enveloped in a vortex of light and prayer.

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