This painting was done one year after the sudden and unexpected death of my beloved brother.  More than any other single event in my life, I felt the extreme tragedy of this occurrence and was opened to Spirit in a new and powerful way.  This painting was homage to the myth of Psyche and Eros, a story that continues to be an inspiration to me.  Psyche was transformed by pure love and brings a gift from the Underground in a box.  That gift is Beauty. Psyche integrates the energies of the masculine and the Feminine and is transformed and elevated to the Divine by the inner work she does in order to accomplish this difficult feat.  She is then charged with the creation of joy and beauty and bringing them into the world.  The music and butterflies represent the energies of joy and transformation

The message:  It is only through our willingness to open to pure love that true joy and beauty will return to our lives as a healing force.  We can all be assisted in this journey by invisible and unexpected helpers as Psyche was in her journey with Eros.