OTHER WORKS TRANSMIGRATION 1 Oil 40 inches H x 96 inches W Transmigration refers to the passage from one state of existence to another, or at death, from one body to another, as in the Hindu doctrine of Transmigration of Souls. The Hebrew Gilgul HaNefeshot, the Wheel of Souls, speaks to the same conceptual vision. In this painting, the depiction of the soul’s passage is achieved through the division of the image into quadrants. They form a vertical and horizontal division of action, which is intended to be read clockwise from upper left to lower left. Immediately the viewer is aware of a massive form in the upper left, which simultaneously presses towards the right, and weighs upon the lower left of the painting. This mass of compressive form alludes to the weight of "illusion". Responding to this pressure, a torso "biomorphoses"in the upper right, signifying the fragmentation or dissolution of the Persona, the first and fundamental step in the release of the Consciousness or Self. The reading then moves downward through the visually expressed "passage of pain", and towards the lower left. There, sudden release of the Spirit, is symbolized through the employment of a plinth-like form of light surmounted by a lower mandible. The latter form was derived from the symbol of the "Ba", the Egyptian symbol of the Soul. Transmigration 1 is then, a biomorphic allegory of spiritual transformation and change through the dissolution of illusion, and the resulting pain that births, or releases the Spirit. UNTITLED Oil 35.5 inches H x 48 inches W Collection: Lynda and Stuart Resnick This work takes as its point of departure the running horses of the Ninevah bas-reliefs. The tightly compressed energetic forms are suddenly halted by downward gesture at the left, which returns the eye to the lower right, the original point of visual departure. The movement is continually sustained within a dynamic cyclical path, and reinterprets the violent aesthetic of the Assyrian artist. FOUR DJINN 2001, Four Panels @ 10 inches W x 30 inches H Acrylic and Mineral Particles on Paper Djinn are demonic entities that frequent regions of desolation; both the external, physical regions of the deserts, and the internal, haunted regions of the psyche. They are spiritually ambiguous and capable of assuming any form. In Eastern understanding, they present themselves at times of duress, and frequently reflect and address the psychological character of their beholder, engaging him on the field of his particular fears and desires. They are manifestations of Self-confrontation and Self-definition at moments of profound doubt and challenge. As such, they can be known and understood as agents of Self-revelation.