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SALVATORE ZOFREA’S CYCLE OF PURE LOVE

To bring this energy of love to physical form Zofrea is slowly creating a 400 foot (122 metres) long painting depicting the cycle of the day in four parts.

Salvatore Zofrea’s monumental new ‘Day Cycle’ is a 122-metre long series depicting the energy of the day in four parts. Together they express the artist’s enduring vision of love, honesty and divinity.

‘WHEN THE BIRDS HEARD THIS story, at last they understood their connection to the Great Simorgh and comprehended its ancient mysteries. Now they were eager to commence the journey,’ wrote the Persian poet Attar, in the twelfth century.

I found this magical phrase from Attar’s ‘The Conference of the Birds’ while browsing Salvatore Zofrea’s collection of poetry, music and art books in his home at Kurrajong, about two hours north-west of Sydney. I was surprised; I wasn’t expecting the Sufi mystic

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