THE BELOVED IS IN THE SILENCE IN BETWEEN NOTES

The soul comes on earth with the love of music. In Arabia there is a story that when God commanded the soul to enter the body, the soul refused saying that this body seemed to it a prison. Then God asked the angels to sing and dance; and as the soul heard this music it was moved to ecstasy, and in that ecstasy it entered the physical body. It is an odd story, and yet it gives the key to the secret of music: that it is not after being born on earth that man learns to love music, but that the soul was already enthralled by music before it came to earth.

Kutsal Birlik (Sacred Union) is a community of healers, yogis, musicians, lovers and artists in Turkey which brings thousands of people together to pray, heal, love, and sing. I want people to feel how beautiful it is to sit together in ceremonial spaces and sing together. I want to inspire people into creating spaces of spiritual, devotional practices in ways that lift up their spirit. My work through these photographs is to offer a visual guide to divine creativity. I hope you join.