Restoring Paradise , further details

The painting which is 10 ft. tall by 16 ft. wide is the largest painting don on a contiguous surface that he completed in his life time. It is also the first in the modern style that has come to define his future body of work. In it you can find many motif's that would recur in the future work of his adult life, the trans-Atlantic steamers in the upper let side of the mural being one amongst these iconic images.

The concentric spiral that he adopted as a trademark and reoccurring motif is found in its earliest form in the pupil of the eye of god that is shaped as both the eye of Horus in the cult of Osiris, and the fish that was the Ancient Greek symbol of the Soul or Christos that was latter adopted by the Early Christians. The bars within the eye are reminders that the all seeing eye of god that watches us all, bars himself from action, because he gave us free will. We are free to enjoy or destroy the Paradise we inhabit.

The eye also has a small fish etched over the pupil in recognition of the Holographic nature of the Universe. This is a manifestation of Carl Jung's Archetypal God-Self and the Atman-Brahman duality Expressed in Hindu Sacred Litterateur, The Upanishads. We are all the little fish within a larger unifying and mirroring larger reality. Hundertwasser said that Bro's Paradise was locked in a treasure chest and that the key had been lost. I think if you look closely you can begin to decipher its hidden symbols and its secrets will begin to reveal themselves.

This painting listed in Harry Rands Book Hunderwasser as in the hunting Lodge of the Countessa Castillion that was demolished in1964, was thought by many to be destroyed. Miraculously it has survived and now is in mid-conservation and is beginning to reveal its beauty for the first time to Hundertwasser fans to whom it as been largely unavailable and lost in obscurity in America. It sate forlorn in an old castle like mansion on the Gold Coast of Long Iland , unknown and forgotten to the owners until its salvaging and rediscovery.