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April 1962
“In amazement, Mother Earth awakens. She had not anticipated the intrusion of consciousness to arouse her from her autonomous eternal cycle. The animus salutes the glowing mountain and the rising sun.”
February 1966
“. . . triggered by a pounding nightmare: I go out my kitchen door and find a large rattlesnake. Someone tells me to put (it) in a bottle of water to keep it contained and harmless . . . When I pick up the bottle, I feel the snake moving about within. I am terrified.”
May 1968
“The spirit of the serpent shines forth….embodies the transpersonal gaze of all-seeing eyes...I had a desperate need to find some avenue of expression for this inner psychic reality that seemed so alien to the collective world about me, yet hammered on me so relentlessly.”
January 1969
“. . . This androgynous figure with the Egyptian headdress erupts from the underworld. The full moon shines forth from the night sky, framing this great archetypal human drama . . . The Archetypal figure holds an egg in one hand and, with the other, points to the kneeling submissive woman.”
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