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It
was during
the year
1970,
(approximately
a year and
a half after the artist’s profound mystical
experience in Vietnam
as described
in his biography),
the young
artist once
again experienced an unexplained event that occurred
immediately
after
entering
through
the Ghiberti
Doors at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral. From the burning
flame
of a solitary
candle,
the young artist experienced a vision of
the future while standing mesmerized
at the foot of the altar at the very end of the Cathedral’s central
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This
event lead
to the creation of Mulleian's 1970 prophetic
painting entitled Forsaken Paradise, foretelling of a world
to come
that clearly emphasizes an ecological calamity.
This six by four foot painting was Mulleian's first of
it's kind,
and it consequently
opened the doors to many of the artist's other greatest works which followed
through decades
to come. Paintings
such as The Calendar 2047, a 1971 piece, also like his painting Forsaken
Paradise, depicts a planet in peril. His notable work Dies Irae, as well
as Prevailing Dawn, both foretell nuclear catastrophe. Stone Effigy gives
a glimpse into the future through a space/time continuum, as both dimensions
blend within a temporal paradigm, also warning us of the dangers of our
unconscious ecological and moral trajectory. And another work, The Crypt,
depicts a critical convergence, revealing ancient, transformative information
yet to be discovered beneath the sands of Egypt, marking the beginning of
a New Age. Many of Mulleian’s most profound paintings convey prophetic
messages as warnings, as well as inform us of the transformative powers
within ourselves. Finally, there is Forces of Man and Nature, a dramatic
work that underscores the consequences of Man’s unthoughtful alliances
and shortsighted miscalculations in relation to his place within the overall
economy of Nature. Just when hope and human consciousness are about to vanish
into darkness, and man’s environmental enslavement and ultimate extinction
seem assured, Nature intervenes to compensate, correct, and restore the
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