TRIPTYCHa Mystery Part 1The Painting deals with a well known biblicalfigure during several incarnations through which he finally achieves completeself awareness... » 

TRIPTYCHa Mystery Part 1The Painting deals with a well known biblicalfigure during several incarnations through which he finally achieves completeself awareness and selfacceptance. It is a self contained novel within alarger three part structure including Part 2 Preliminary Studies and Part 3Afterimages which though formally related to Part and dealing with thecreative process but telling their own storiesare not printed here. Part 1The Painting is written in its own three part structure and is in the form of amystery storyto which the word mystery is to be applied in more than onedefinition To begin with it is not a Whodunit? but Whoisit? And though theanswer to this question should become apparent by halfway through the work thefinal denouement can be perceived as either diabolical or holyor bothdepending upon the readers point of view. «