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ECSTATIC FLORA, FAUNA, SPIRIT
7’8” X 3’ 7” -Acrylic on Canvas- (2007) 2009.

After meeting a seminarian from Italy:

"It was your unusual name (Natale Albino, White Christmas) that was suggestive for me. Mine is as well in reference to Christmas, but your's is more to the point. The great Winter Solstice celebrations that used to mark those dates were in part fertility celebrations, but as well warmth and light at the darkest moments of the year. We also celebrate warmth in the darkness. Hope at the coldest moments. The barren or virginal womb is, of course, the great symbol in the Scriptures of this impossible Void that is the source of all things-- I.e. God, Godhead, or the ineffable ground of being. Our lives as celibates are also the opportunity for impossible goodness to erupt from barren lives. My interest explores and acknowledges the whole body of such observance."

An actual spiritual presence of creative fecundity, ecstatic propagation has been inculcated and here revealed.

@Stephen Frost - Nepsis Foundation 2010