Freeing the Paradise Bird
2009
Oil on Canvas 116 x 88 cm
To open the doors of perception is to see the world in its full splendour.
Those whom the Gods favour with this divine gift will sit down stunned and speechless, aware that they have
stumbled on a source of pure happiness which may even hold the key to life eternal. One setback, though only
limited to the confines of time and space, is a sandstorm that begins to brew above the distant town.
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This is the third image out of eight which tell, step by step, a fanciful story of how to find ways through the labyrinth
of life and finally to arrive at a state of mind called commonly, and rather vaguely, enlightenment.
It is based on a series of eight pen-and-ink drawings called The travelling Circus.