I have got to get some better reproductions. The bottom pen and ink drawing is a Salome and John the Baptist. Not that this is what actually happened: for me, Sal and JB exist in a realm of symbols; their lives continue, intertwined by history and myth. She, the dancer and lover, and he, the prophet and authority figure. But see, he looses his head. JB exists as a bifurcated person: his head and body are disconnected, and can only reconnect in the presence of the dancing girl. Or alternately: the dancing girl needs the head of the prophet to authenticate her own existence. Or this is an embematic story of the delphic oracle: Salome, a dionysian ecstatic conjures prophecy as a cutting off of human function.The water color on top is about the church being released from its bureaucratic functionaries.
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