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The Rumi on Canvas collection is rooted in the Sufi practice of sema — the whirling ceremony in which movement becomes meditation and the body becomes a vessel…The Rumi on Canvas collection is rooted in the Sufi practice of sema — the whirling ceremony in which movement becomes meditation and the body becomes a vessel for something larger than itself. Inspired by the poetry of Rumi and the visual intensity of dervish dance, these paintings pursue the moment when form and color stop describing and start feeling. The figures do not stand still. Nothing here is meant to.