James Joyce Stone Riley(see more by this artist)
Acrylic on canvas, 24 x 36 inches. This is intended to protray the state of "shamanic vision" which Joyce, Thomas Mann, Joseph Campbell and Karl Kerenyi have discussed. If you're interested in shamanism here's some stuff you might like to read: http://www.stoneriley.com/TOMW/ASorcerorsApprentice.html http://www.stoneriley.com/TOMW/TouchingTheStag.html http://www.stoneriley.com/TOMW/EarthDeities.html Or you could go here and look at page 25: http://www.stoneriley.com/CFTB_GO.html Or maybe here and scan down to poem #5: http://www.stoneriley.com/TOMW/TheMajorArcanaOfTheSimpleTarot.html Or here's a whole book on that and related subjects: www.stoneriley.com/TOMW.html Or maybe the home website: www.stoneriley.com And thank you for your interest in the work.