1983:  &quot;BIRTH/REBIRTH&quot;, 28x40 Acrylics on Canvas (Needs to be re-photographed digitally.)

Once loosened up (for the UWS painting class), I decided to do something with the primary and secondary colors in the  squeeze-bottle technique.  This painting was a statement of my born-again experience, though colors:  Purple, and the 'fetus' represented my place in the dark womb as a human child.  Blue, I was born; and green, I grew as plants and trees grow and mature into full foliage.  Orange stated my spiritual rebirth, and Yellow, the Light that shown in my life in my spiritual renewal.  Red portrayed my flesh and blood; but also the fact that I had experiences of healings of allergies after being prayed for to receive the Holy Spirit into my heart and life.  

Proof of God's presence and healing processes were manifested by heat going through my body in areas of my body that were affected by allergy symptoms.  These occurred a few times at night over about two weeks time.  Once, when I woke up in the morning and went into the kitchen to make breakfast, my feet and legs below my knees felt the internal heat.  Then I remembered that chemicals in the fairly new carpet I was standing on had given me reactions after its installation. That healing heat I also represented with Red.