There
is one piece entitled “Stone Effigy” that exemplifies this very point and stands
out from all the others. Painted by Mulleian in 1970 while in a semi trance
state as the image automatically started to appear through his brushes onto
a 32” by 46’ canvas, as though it was painting itself, an image which eyes have
not seen the likes of before that seems to defy all manner of periods in the
art world’s tradition.
We
gaze through a space/time continuum as both moments blend within a temporal
paradigm, forming a conceptual framework intended to restore balance to a world
which has become precariously out of balance, a self-correcting impulse which
mirrors itself. Enantiodrimia. The unconscious, like a phantom of the past,
delivers us a message for the future:
For
over four decades the power of his paintings have caused the public to ponder
at progressively deeper levels of thoughts.
Stone
Effigy
There
are
unknown
powers
that lie
so far
beyond our grasp
yet so close
as to live within us
through the illumination
of
wisdom
that reconfigures
the constellation,
giving us
guardianship
over
our own
transfiguration.
Consecrated
in a stone effigy
that rises
from out of
a boiling
sea and
opens
like
a tomb, revealing
the twilight
of an atomic world
of man's
fury,
is the future,
looking back through
the eyes
of destiny.
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