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"Angelic Forms and Mortal Symbols", Acrylic on canvas. !989. 70" X 54". (In the collection of Mr. and Mrs.J. Gottlieb, Frankford, Germany)

This painting was the first of a series of nine paintings comprising the "Minor Ceremonies" series created between 1989 and 1995.The subject matter of this series was inspired in part by life long interest in the areas of mythology and the system of oral traditions that served as the methodology for the retention and transferance of knowledge by humankind's genesis cultures.

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"Mother of Forms (For W. B. Yeats)", Watercolor and inks on paper. 1999. 36" X 24". (In the collection of the artist.)

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(Text: I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic...in what I must call an envocation of spirits

though I do not know what they are, in the power of creating magical illusions, in the visions of the truth, in the depths of the mind when the eyes are closed....

----- W.B. Yeats, "Ideas of Good and Evil)