I don't recall if this particular body of work was made for the Pannikin Show (The Pannikin was one of La Jolla's main coffee "spas" through the 70's and 80's.) or if I had already begun it as simply my next series of work.  In any case, the Pannikin Show was the one and only time this work was shown. There was one of the more bazaar images sold to a magazine for an article that dealt with, of all things, the dreaded, so-called "Yuppie Syndrome," something having to do with unrelenting, non-stop tiredness.   Many of these works were eventually sold or given away separately.

The acetate overlays — four or five of them — were of varied religious iconography ranging from versions of Buddha to the Virgin Mary. With these pieces I attempted to take them a step further — that is, a step further in my work — by visually integrating them with worldly images. I think that, by and large, I succeeded in doing what I set out to do.  My success, however, may not be clear in the images as they appear here on the website.  I discovered that the images don't read properly on a computer screen — essentially back lighting — as they did in the actual viewing situation of the show.

As seen here, too much weight is given to what lies under the acetate. My original intention, to render an equality of both ontological status and visual balance between say, the Bodhidharma figure and whatever figure might be behind him actually worked.  I was after a nuanced integration of 'things' to show how the improbable and the profane are often perfectly spiritual, and perhaps vice versa.  I was trying in my own way to deal with, indeed, erase that particular dichotomy.  The individual title for each of these works that formed the main body of the total work in the show was a letter from the Sanskrit alphabet. I no longer remember which title went with which image.

 Apart from the main groupings of this work were smaller groupings that, while still employing religious iconography, do not really fit with the larger groupings of images. Finally, there are also about ten or so images that were part of that show done with the face of a lady friend from Germany. These images come at the end of the gallery.