Where the Light Enters You

Where The Light Enters You: exploring loss and longing in local landscape, with words and images by Vicky Allen

Wednesday 1st May – Sunday 2nd June

Wed-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 1pm-5pm

John Muir’s Birthplace

This exhibition is a search for hope amidst the lament around our changing climate and how it is impacting us. From contemplating a changing landscape to noticing the small beauties found all around us, art and words combine to invite us to be attentive to our shared environment with a particular and very local focus.

The title of the exhibition is drawn from Rumi’s famous poem:

“I said: what about my eyes?

He said: Keep them on the road.

I said: What about my passion?

He said: Keep it burning.

I said: What about my heart?

He said: Tell me what you hold inside it?

I said: Pain and sorrow.

He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”