SARAH FARAHAT
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Once, in ancient times, when the World-Honored One was at Mount Grdhrakata, he twirled a flower before his assembled disciples.  All were silent. 
Only Mahakasyapa broke into a smile.
 -Buddhist kôan

The garden is a rug onto which the whole world comes to enact its symbolic perfection, and the rug is a sort of garden that can move across space
-Foucault “Of Other Spaces”

The Persian garden functioned as a microcosm, as a heterotopia, with plants from the four corners of the earth, and a fountain or umbilicus as the center of the garden.  Persian rugs illustrate different configurations of these gardens and use Islamic patterning and symbology to weave magical carpets.  
Here is a flowering prayer rug of faith, hope and letting go.

The garden is…the place where nature is simultaneously welcomed, resisted, nourished and controlled.
-Rebecca K. Gould “At Home in Nature-Modern Homesteading and Spiritual Practice in America” 
2008


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