I'm not fond of what one of my friends used to call "polyester pastels," but this image , though filled with easter-egg colors, is radiant. It's a circle in striped gold and parchment with golden-brown details. It opens onto another one of those "radiant voids" filled with pale yellow and green light. The golden central circle is surrounded by feather like extensions in dark teal and white, and by an additional scalloped edging in graduated shades of peach, blush and pink against a background of pale violet and aqua. The corners are lavender and orange.
It's intended to be a tribute to the fluffy, feathery, many-eyed "cherubim" (sic) that figured in L'Engle's "The Wind in the Door." Though it isn't a traditional angel, I feel there is something angelic about it, in a sixties sort of way.
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