La Verguenza

Two themes exist in this work.  The expulsion of Adam and Eve from the garden - pertaining to my feelings about our relationship with the environment, and the “totentanz,” originating in the late medieval northern Europe, which I associated with AIDS.  These images make up the side panels of the triptych of La Verguenza (the Spanish word for revenge).  The central panel depicts a circular form suggesting the world or a human head, or both as a container of consciousness.  In the under painting is a quote from the Tibetan book of Great Liberation, translated by W.Y. Evans Wentz:  ‘Nothing save mind is conceivable; Mind, when uninhibited, conceives all that comes into existence; That which comes into existence is like the wave of an ocean; The state of mind transcendent over all dualities brings liberation.’ –Artist statement