Robbert Fortin
The Majesty of the Elephant as an Earthbound Cloud
March 3–29, 1988

“When a man sought to know how he should live, he went into solitude and cried until in vision some animal brought wisdom to him”, said the Pawnee chief Letakots-Lesa. Mysteriously, naturally, images of the elephant came to me. Intuitively, instinctively, I depicted these mythologically charged repositories of wisdom and knowledge, at first with difficulty and fear. Where did they come from? In continuing, I am the elephant. The elephant is the medium. The painting is a medium. I am the elephant.

Thoughts voyaging freely in the universe as invisible energy, cells of thoughts. Not just blood, one human being to another, natural telecommunicators, understanding the invisible power of the source. Each human being is a receptor and a transformer.”