Working on good paper is more appealing than canvas. The figures in this one are from Wolf Huber's painting, Crucifixion Allegory from about 1550. Lately I've been studying Renaissance and post-renaissance paintings for their backgrounds more than their main subjects, and these faces popped out at me from Huber's.
Below is the original masterwork as well as the details that I stole from:
The following has nothing to do with Wolf Huber, just my own imagination.
Lately, I've been looking at mandalas as a meditation device, and these pages were partly inspired by Yantra. A yantra is sort of the visual equivalent of a mantra, or a device for the consciousness to fixate upon. The yantra represents the union of male and female energy with the upward triangles representing one and the downward triangles representing the opposite. The Hindus say that the male principle is the active one while the female is passive and the Buddhists have it flip-flopped. Either way, it symbolizes a reconciliation of opposites that forms the basis of consciousness.
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