A site-responsive iteration of rumi roaming multimodal anthology, this exhibition is organized around seasons of nature, and creates multiple occasions for stepping out of the touristic ecology of Ucluelet, a popular storm-watching and surfing destination on Vancouver Island. At the beginning of each season a part of the project is presented on site, online and by mail.
The exhibition highlights our existential connections to land and water by exploring earth-focused and place-based creative practices through multi-spatial encounters, operating within an exhibition economy of harm reduction by using existing outdoor and virtual spaces, and recycled/reused paper and botanical inks and pigments made by the artist.
rumi roaming ucluelet includes Hashemi's 4-part video cycle oneness of being, presented at UMD Gallery & Projects and for online viewing. Each video is a kaleidoscopic visual reverie on land and water and seasonal changes, inspired by and interpolated with verses from Rumi.
Each season the project also included a banner created with botanical inks made by the artist. The banner roamed through Ucluelet for the season. Each banner was accompanied by limited edition tiny prints available on site at UMD, and by mail. Fostering opportunities for decolonial culture-sharing between Indigenous and settler inhabitants, this iteration of the rumi roaming project explores affinities between Nuučanuł and Persianate cosmologies, taking its starting point from the phrase hišukʔiš c̓awaak (everything is one) and these Rumi lines with which the video cycle starts:
صبح وجود را به جز این آفتاب نیست / بر ذره ذره وحدت حسنش مقرریست
اما بدان سبب که به هر شام وهر صبوح / اشکال نو نماید گویی که دیگریست
The dawn of existence has only one sun / its oneness of being sustains every particle
Yet because it reveals new facets / at each dawn and dusk it looks as an other
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