Created in response to “Sunset Birth” and in homage to Ithell Colquhoun’s visionary mysticism, this painting explores the vertical axis as a force of inner and planetary alignment. Volcano, spiral fossil form, and charged archways of light converge to form prima materia, life at its most primordial. A teardrop of volcanic obsidian rock grounds the bottom center. As it evolved, this painting also unintentionally revealed the figure of an angel, wings unfurled over the body of the volcano.