THE PROCESSION OF IGNORANT BLISS INTO THE VALLEY OF TEMPTATION~!

Anyone have a 15ft X 5ft SCANNER I can borrow...?

All I have of this MURAL are the following slide photos.

The piece of art was already damaged a bit by this point

of its existence due to abuse & neglect, lying around in

musty crawl spaces, cramped overheated attics, and in

cluster-mucked basements over by the cat litter box.

It measure approximately 13ft X 3.5ft, four panels of

thick paper literally taped together on the reverse

side. It's title ? Oh~ that was the EASY part~! It

came before a single sketch was ever made:

THE PROCESSION OF IGNORANT BLISS

INTO THE VALLEY OF TEMPTATION

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Yup~!

You see, some people have crying jags~ but I

had just experienced a Carl Jung Jag~ in which

I gobbled up over half of his Bollingen Press books,

covering a myriad of topics, but in GENERAL, always

revolving around MAN & HIS SYMBOLS, DREAMS

& RECOLLECTIONS, with an occasional UFO tossed

in to liven things up. Although I have never been that

'religious' per se, I've always been a spiritual SEEKER.

Something about this idea of Archetypes & Symbols

struck a major chord within, resonating through my

funny bones all the way up to gray matters in my

blobulous brain. So, I sat and thought... with more

than a few 40 ouncers and, with a little pot luck,

stewed just enough to brew up the following

characters to represent the more dominant

voices in my head...

And, from left to right, they trample over

a slumbering giant, whose bears an uncanny

likeness to a certain Dreamer of Self-Knowledge~!

~THE PROCESSION OF IGNORANT BLISS INTO THE VALLEY OF TEMPTATION~

~THE MADMAN & BAD CONSCIENCE~

~THE ERRANT KNIGHT & JACKASS~

~THE HOBO CLOWN~

~THE GOOD CONSCIENCE & DUNCE WRITER~

~THE COURT JESTER~

~THE COURT JESTER & THE SATYR~

~THE SATYR~

~THE PAINTER/OBSERVER~

~THE OBSERVER & TEMPTATION~

~PANELS THREE & FOUR~

~PANELS TWO & THREE~