Check out the lights in Longmont that are in the Whirling Dervish Transcendence sculpture located at 5th and Main Street. They are timed to go on at 6:30 pm and as of now they last about an hour do to the shade on the solar panel.
This sculpture is in response to an experience in Paris where I enjoyed seeing a Whirling Dervish, a member of a Muslim (specifically Sufi) religious order who has taken vows of poverty and austerity. Dervishes first appeared in the 12th century; they were noted for their wild or ecstatic rituals and were known as dancing, whirling, or howling dervishes according to the practice of their order. I was memorized and envisioned the dancer combusting into flame and ascending in to heaven.
Nice work, Annette!
Thank you Annette for the wonderful display of your Whirling Dervish sculpture at 7 Stones Botanical Cemetery in Littleton.
This morning in a contemplative sit, I saw the symbolic ‘flame’ of loss of self and transcendence into the divine.
Yes, something that will be all of our experience at death, but what a different world it would be if embraced while living.