NOOR #1 #2
These landscapes are a hymn to the elemental pulse of the Earth—a quiet dialogue between the eternal sky and the restless ground. They stand as a mirror of our shared impermanence and an invitation to honor the fleeting beauty that surrounds us.
To live deeply is to embrace our smallness within the grandeur of nature, to seek the hidden threads of beauty even in shadowed places. It is not about simplifying the intricate or complicating the pure, but rather about remaining open—present, watchful, and humble.
These images ask us to listen, to sense the quiet rhythm of the world beyond our human noise. They are reminders to hold reverence for what is fleeting, to remain rooted in love and awe, and to never turn away from the wild truth of being alive.
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting —
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.
“Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver
NOOR #1 #2 // 2023
archival Pigment on cotton William Turner 310gr paper
each piece 150 x 100 cm
edition 3 + 1 AP
