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The Codes of Life
1969
Oil on five canvases
60" x 36" each. 60" x 180"

The twirlers, in the center of the painting is a male figure, his head is cropped symbolizing his want of knowledge. In his left hand he twirls disks, representing the various achievements of man. The medical, and the healing situations that humans developed, the waterways, the nourishment - the fields that we grow to sustain our selves and the cultural developments in the arts. There are three separate twirled disks, partially shown. In the bottom right you will find the devil symbol, which represents the undermining of the human endeavor.

Directly in front of him is the female, child pattern symbolizing the family and to the lower right he touches the hand of the symbolic holy figure from which he draws his moral strengths.