abstracted image with realistic tree stumps, logs, flowers and foliage at bottom, with the body of a man transforming into star shapes made up of triangles blending in to a background of sky and bare trees made up of similar star shapes made of triangles; white spot (sun or moon?) in URC; text in Old English script in black at bottom: "Dim and dark Indistinct and shadowy By my body After a thousand years of life Thousands of years of death / I quit my body to the Realm of Radiance Find rest knowing Trees will become rocks Rocks will become trees / The Holy Flower of the North Star That together For every nature Everything fashioned And all creation / The Body of Adam All is being dissolved into one root Exists in one another Is drawn to each other"

%C2%A9 Eric Beltz

Body of Adam, 2016

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Title
Body of Adam
Artist Life
born 1975
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2020.96.46
Provenance
The artist, Santa Barbara, Calif.; [CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, sold to Mersky 2017]; Robert B. Mersky, Minneapolis; given to MIA, 2020.
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abstracted image with realistic tree stumps, logs, flowers and foliage at bottom, with the body of a man transforming into star shapes made up of triangles blending in to a background of sky and bare trees made up of similar star shapes made of triangles; white spot (sun or moon?) in URC; text in Old English script in black at bottom: "Dim and dark Indistinct and shadowy By my body After a thousand years of life Thousands of years of death / I quit my body to the Realm of Radiance Find rest knowing Trees will become rocks Rocks will become trees / The Holy Flower of the North Star That together For every nature Everything fashioned And all creation / The Body of Adam All is being dissolved into one root Exists in one another Is drawn to each other"

© Eric Beltz

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