opening the soul wide to possiblity (10 December 2016)

Kiki Smith, Blue Stars On Blue Tree, 2006.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

- Emily Dickinson

Libby Smith, Emily Dickinson - altered book, 2016

Hope is the thing with feathers –
That perches in the soul
And sings the tunes without the words –
And never stops – at all

- Emily Dickinson

Kiki Smith, pages from Sampler, 200 poems by Emily Dickinson, 2007

Forever is composed of nows.

- Emily Dickinson

Zeruah Higley Guernsey, detail of Caswell Carpet, c 1832 - 1835 

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.

- Emily Dickinson

Kiki Smith, print from Sampler, 200 poems by Emily Dickinson, 2007

The brain is wider than the sky.

- Emily Dickinson

 

Yumi Okita, Embroidered moths

Dwell in possibility.

- Emily Dickinson

Kiki Smith, pages from Sampler, 200 poems by Emily Dickinson, 2007