Beyond Other Worlds

14” x 11” x ¼”

1992

colored pencil, acrylic, brass, silver, stained glass

“Beyond Other Worlds” depicts a cosmonaut traveling through space.  He wears a green jacket that encloses the Sacred Heart of Christ, framed in brass and made from stained glass and acrylic beads.  Pink triangles, placed over the American flag on his epaulets, reference the triangles worn by homosexuals in the concentration camps of WWII.  One of my Shadow Saints stands behind him, robed in red, with a Pentecostal flame in her hand.  A halo around his head reads “The Divine Homosexual;” this drawing has also been titled “The Saint.”  He is my vision of a new saint for the ages.  This drawing later became a part of the “Three Realms Triptych” in 2009, and was shown inside the installation, “A Window Unto Three Realms,” that same year.  Originally, it was exhibited inside my first installation, "Refuge," in 1992.  

Pictures of "A Window Unto Three Realms” and "Refuge" appear below, and viewers can click on them to read more about them and to enlarge them in the Exhibits/Installations section.