Visions of Heaven and Earth

An exerpt from the book 'Cosmic Visions'

Visionaries have always been individuals who seem able to step out of the river of life and, as their mortal feet are drying, gaze back into the muddy waters and see both the river’s source and the infinite sea into which it empties.

They are endowed with the curiosity and capacity to look not at but through. Not content to accept appearance, they penetrate the seductive world to cross over the threshold of the world of ideas and the spirit. For only there, in the intangible world within, can that truth for which they seek be found.

That a visionary artist such as Mirtala should try to make this interior world manifest in the very solidly material form of bronze sculpture is paradoxical, but no more paradoxical than life itself.

If visionaries are natural philosophers, then Mirtala is surely one. The nature of being is her realm of inquiry, the object of her investigation and the subject of her art.

by Paul Nagano

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