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Paper Boats Commission

2/16/2016

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Paper Boats
Rabindranath Tagore [1861-1941]

    Day by day I float my paper boats one by one down the running stream.
    In big black letters I write my name on them and the name of the village where I live.
    I hope that someone in some strange land will find them and know who I am.
    I load my little boats with Shiuli flower from our garden, and hope that these blooms of the dawn will be carried safely to land in the night.
    I launch my paper boats and look up into the sky and see the little clouds setting thee white bulging sails.
    I know not what playmate of mine in the sky sends them down the air to race with my boats!
    When night comes I bury my face in my arms and dream that my paper boats float on and on under the midnight stars.
    The fairies of sleep are sailing in them, and the lading is their baskets full of dreams.
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I was asked by a Hillary B. of Maryland to make this commission based on a poem she has loved for many years. This was an especially fun project because instead of giving me an image to work with, I was left to my own devices to interpret the poem and conceive the image. 
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