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	"Rashani's cards are food for the human soul." -Alice Walker "Rashani's cards are a rich harvest of unique images and deep wisdom. They are sacred maps for transformation, helping us shift our consciousness, our lives, our world. They offer nourishing guidance for a sustainable future." -Dr. Margaret Pavel, Ecopsychologist As a young girl Rashani was drawn to and inspired by the silkscreen prints and serigraphs of Sister Corita, later known as Corita Kent. She loved the interplay of words, images and color and how Corita integrated social and spiritual messages. It was Rashani’s first experience of “engaged art.”
In 1967, Rashani studied with one of Corita’s students, Sister Monica Julie, when she was the only non-Catholic student at Notre Dame High School in Belmont, California. Her passion for calligraphy and collage was ignited that year and has been expressing itself unstoppably ever since. For the past forty-four years, Rashani has explored, and been transformed by, the alchemy of images, words and color, this ineffable trinity which became her main “practice.” In 1984 she went to visit Corita, to thank her for being such a profound influence in her life. Corita looked quietly and carefully at Rashani’s bulging portfolio and after about twenty-five minutes without having said a word, she simply nodded her head and smiled. “YES,” she whispered, “One day the world will be touched by your gifts.”