METAMORPHOSIS -1989 - 68" X 68" - Oil on canvas.

Over the years I had known Dr. Elizabeth Kubler Ross, I had promised her a painting for the EKR Center. In her explanation of the death process, Elisabeth uses as a metaphor, the butterfly emerging from the cocoon. We live life within the confines of a cocoon and in death we brake free and become a butterfly. This is the true definition of Metamorphoses, the emerging soul. Thus, the title of the work.

The construction of the EKR Center was completed and, on July 8, 1990, there was to be a celebration and dedication of the Center. This also coincided with Elisabeth's birthday. The painting was delivered and hung the day before the dedication of the center. I was honored that hundreds, many terminally ill and bereaved participants in Elisabeth's work shops, would see the painting. There it stayed until the center closed in 1995. At that time Elisabeth came to me and asked if I would like to have the painting back. "You should have it." It now hangs in my home.