The metaphor I took from that example was of a place that served as a world.
The world was made up of the Mythos idea. I like the word mythos better than the seasonal as mythos fills out seasonal to all its meanings and to its central place in a story.
I had described the shield earlier and it had evolved into a diamond pattern and I called this height the Villa Diamonds.
In the Villa I made every different combination which would decorate a large room or Villa.
There is a painting in the group which became a bit like a Duccio crucifix I saw around the time. It was the result of playing around with juxtapositions of the different aspects of the Hero I still struggled to evade or by this time actually make in this different way.
There was a Stevens poem Postcard from the Volcano which was behind the work somehow and I thought I was making a relation to his poetry on a lot of levels or maybe I should say in the ordering of things.
I started to see how I was rocking back and forth between a more narrative form and then in its repetition it became more abstract and Symbol like. These genres seemed to follow my natural habits of naturalistic landscape painting..
Then blowing up the painting larger in studio. Repeating these images in differing orders and juxtapositions which made a more Abstract symbol level.
These paintings took everything to a high symbol level. Most things here are repeated from some other place and the repetition makes this symbol feeling. Maybe now why this is repeated because it must mean something in the scheme or --
then maybe one sees the World I am talking about.
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