In The Lobby Of Heaven

Pierre, one of your masterpiece of creative -work and original thinking. You have admirably created the illusion of Space with light & shade. Your choice of symbols is commendable. An image which should adorn the walls of a reputed Art Gallery of Modern Art. IMO, I knew the heaven is out of bound for a naive persons like me, who do not believe any religion.

Stunning, Pierre. Where did you capture these gravestones? Are they from the 19th, 18th, or maybe 17th century? Or even ancient Roman ones? My interpretation of this appealing image is: daily life / jet set etc. is a really passing / transitory thing... Do you know Seneca's (the great ancient Roman philosopher) work "De brevitate vitae" ("On the Shortness of Life" - I think so)? Fits perfectly to your work here. Congrats, Pierre.

Bw, Volker

My good friend, Pierre,

All the compliments made are my thought exactly.

I do have a relative rating for this work, A TWELVE !

Stupendous job !

All the Best, Uncle Mike

Pierre, great image even if I am a little fuzzy on the concept.  Are you implying that, if there is a God, he/she will deny "access" to Heaven based on which culture (e.g. Roman/western) you come from.

Senor Perez, something like that, I simply claim that we don't behave upon the will of God, we care too much for money, power and lust, greed...don't care for God and for the others! Something like that! And we are very similar to the Romans, the ancient ones! It doesn't mean that none of us will enter heaven, it's just in general, our civilizations goes i  a wrong way I think!

PDE

Nice imagination and juxtaposition of past/present and future.....well composed and executed.

Wonderful work of art

One of your best arts.  Best Regards,

Oh, amazing blue! (golubije plava)! Extraordinary work! Bravo Maestro!

Wonderful creation with the magnetic power to attract the masters in PN such as Olaf, Volker, Mike, A.K., and J.Perez all contributing to the fun and incredible creation your amazing imagination is able to present to us!! Mi amigo Pierre en buen Cubano eres un genio!!!  Warm regards my friend.

Fantastic surreal creation full of mistery and ancestral significate! Bravo!

There is a beautiful, airy, porcelain quality to this image that really suits it. The message within is complex and intriguing as always Pierre.

All my best,   Bill

"Return from tomorrow" by George G. Ritchie, M.D. 1978 - Chosen Books, Grand Rapids.

By lending my Dutch translation I couldn't be more specific in the comment before. By that my Irene did order a new one. :) "Return from tomorrow" has led to all the later study, forinstance by Raymond A. Moody Jr. with " Life after life." Pierre, you did a great, courageous job by presenting your image.

Mr. Dumas: I like your explanations. I was worried that you were making the grand statement that ALL descendents of the Roman Empire were excluced from heaven. Not so, as you say.

To complicate things, I remind you that the Roman world was a descendent of the even older Greek world. Their view, per the Odyssey, was that the after life was a bland, colorless world where the spirits of all the dead simply congregated with nothing to do. While not heaven, in that storyline no one was denied access to the afterlife.

This thought is just for fun. Regards.

I enjoy being able to read a whole narrative of my own imagination into the scene.  The more I look, the more I enjoy it.  It's quirky and fascinating.  Congratulations.