"The Portrait of Forrest Solis or the Mystery of the Feminine" The person who posed for it was Forrest Solis, my professor in graduate school. If you want the reasoning behind it; What is going on? What is this about? Working on it, from a small sketch of a figure with tongues sticking out with another head on that to the completed image, I cannot really give you a reason or reasons as to what is this! Let us take a trip in this image from rear to near. The landscape has a look of a surface of the human brain. Why did I paint it like that? It just happened that way. But as we get into the action, the forms that you can see, it shows my interest in numerology or the symbolism of numbers. Odd numbers. That happened when I painted the rainbow tree forms, there had to be seven of them. It was then that I was interested in symbolism of numbers. Three heads, one flower, then seven trees, and then in that was the use of five butterflies, and seven donuts. Why donuts? I cannot say exactly. Sexual? Yes. Empty calories? Yes. But also the circle is about both completeness and the number of them is nine. Nine has a interesting reality. The square root of 9 is 3. This reflects the three heads. The number 3, beginning, middle and end. That leads to the flower. The flower is the first number, 1. The singularity. What is this getting at? I have not idea really, I can talk about the Dhammapada, a collection of Buddhas saying. I could include Jungian ideas. Its an image that seemed to happen, and the real work was building it that made sense, that the elements worked together, and in the end the question I ask about anything that I do as an artwork, "Is this worth me doing?". I can try to write more about the internal workings of this work. The work is less about me thinking, reasoning, and illustrating some philosophical idea, and about letting something happen. I read a great deal. I have interests in Jungian ideas, mythology, etc. This is to let sink into the mind and let it arise out of making images. This is a good example. It works as an painting.