Caged

Epiphany ( the beginning)

Epiphany:The Beginning

( click for audio version read by Stephen Whitehead)

And the words of a poet long dead
spoke to me through time and space,
with words to balm a soul huddled
In its own cloak of fear.
And the cage door opened a little.
Through that small opening I peeped at the world,
And I knew my own strength.
Began to push.
With a whisper of silk,
the cloak slipped from my shoulders.

"You are a bird of paradise in the magic of existence, why allow yourself to be caged and chained?" Rumi

Reviews

Caged
Review by Natalie Bookham
Filled with emotion, the tiger is curled in a foetal position, conveying feelings of powerlessness and lonliness. The blackness adds to the issolation. As the viewer we feel as though we are looking in to the cage at a circus or fair: the tiger has become an attraction and is no longer an animal with feelings. The artist has managed to personify this animal, making our feelings towards it much more powerful

Review by Abhijit Ganguly
There is a foreboding sense of doom in the way the lines seem to bar one's view into the inside. Yet, there is whiff of freedom that the same lines portray. It's as if someone's saying,

"No, you can keep looking and you still can't go in. But if it comes out you're both free.".