ARTIST'S COMMENTARY (continued)

      This composition is resolved to the point of almost becoming one of the symbols I have used in my art work, before this and currently.
      The mountain reaches up towards the sky, breaking through the horizontal pattern created by the smaller distant mountains. Above the pyramid shape of the mountain, and centrally placed, a cloud is hovering. The two seem aligned and connected.
      The lower shape is made of straight lines, while the upper is roundish, but amorphous. The cloud's momentary and temporary nature contrast with the mountain's unmoving wait of thousands of years. The mountain is of earth and may have spewed fire at it's creation. The cloud is of gas and liquid. One might say that the mountain is the body, the cloud, the mind; that one is earth and the other, the heavens.
      And if you see, with your mind's eye, a figure dancing and spinning, you are beginning to understand my art.
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Feb. 17, 1988
egg tempera on hand made paper
6 x 8.4 inches
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