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blue/purple diagonal with ATLAS ECLIPTICALIS and musical notes and sphinx with Ingres head in savanna grass
Sphinx--Lioness (Atlas Eclipticalis)
acrylic, ink, collage on paper
14" x 17"
2013

I was thinking about my story, the three women (and narrator) in France (on the blog) and the impossibility of seeing a lioness (who became the Sphinx) in tall savanna grasses occurred to me... so un-French and yet... maybe not so impossible...

At the same time, I had been listening to a John Cage composition... difficult... called Atlas Eclipticalis, apparently created out of a tracing of the alignment of the stars... again, not possible, but not, apparently, impossible...