The Importance of Stretching . . .

“Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.”

~Haruki Murakami

(From the ballerina and trumpeter series at the Newport Museum of Art)