I and My Father Are One / Spectrum of Sound (Meher Baba and the Children)

1988. In I and My Father Are One, I experimented with an idea I had read in The Genius of Leonardo Da Vinci: He says the surfaces of all opaque bodies take on the color of whatever is in front of them. I played with the idea that colors reflected off of an object unto a surrounding object. Betty Ryan gave me the music Faure’s Requiem and Cantique de Jean Racine (children singing in a cathedral in France) and I painted this painting while listening to it. It is for all the abused and abandoned children in the world and Baba is their Father-Mother and Protector. I first named it Spectrum of Sound because I painted the colors that I felt coming out of the music. On this day Baba had given a gift to the children of new clothes and they were posing for the photo with Him.

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