Brain Cell Interior, oil painting

Study for the interior of the brain cell featured in the stained glass dome, Wholeo. This painting is in Caroling's collection. It is on the back of one of the panels in the self portrait, I and the Universe. The background is the primed linen canvas. I painted it in layers. I used to capitalize the names of things like "Brain Cell" but today I feel like accepting them as generic things, thus lowercased.

• First came the sphere of the emotions in large red and blue swirls, with a few orange tendrils reaching out.
• Cosmic juices appeared in green/gold sandwiches at the ends of the golden central cross, articulating the source ends and sides of the tetrahedral light muscle (TLM).
• Incoming sensations bobbled up around the edges.
• The storage block formed in sliver vibe shapes, looking straight into the cube.
• 24 gold and white cylindrical rods stretched the length of the cube.
• Info rings radiated from the rods.
• The TLM flickers in subdued green-golden flecks near the central region.

In 1978 I made a diagram of this painting in the book Wonder in Aliceland.

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