This painting reveals how deeply entrenched in the process I was: I had unconsciously become the architypal ouroborus of ancient hermetic writings. It also shows how my head has mataphorically taken on the form of a pearl in a shell through the continual aggravation of the grit of my life. All our destructive emotions have to burn themselves out and be suffered through, whilst also participation in the reality of the outer world, if true trasformation is to be achieved.
