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In this painting the soul ascending into heaven at the time of death is represented by the imagery of three birds of "pray" rising upwards. An owl is wearing a St. Christopher's medal worn for luck during travel on the left of the painting, a vulture (certainly a bird of prey and a harbinger of death) watches the scene from the lower right corner.
Two deteriorating statues of Celtic druids and a madonna figure are located just above a Crucifixion image seen from an anterior 3/4's perspective view. The undulating sand dunes of the bottom landscape reveal an embedded female torso and a hole burned into the center of the canvas emits sun beams of celestial light.
Having been indoctrinated in Catholicism at a very early age, it sometimes pervades my imagery on a subconscious level as an undercurrent which focuses on the conflict of the sacred versus the profane. Catholicism always focused on the body, the transubstantiation of the Host into the Body of Christ, the Ascension and the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and the Madonna and Child… always emphasizing the humanity of Christ as opposed to Protestantism where images of God were seen as iconoclastic.