Raising the Dead - Surreal Landscape Painting memory they don't act or think

they don't act or think like we do

The bird’s-eye vantage point

It is ready to frame

without the snake's encouragement

Raising the Dead - Surreal Landscape Painting memory they don't act or thinkI knew as soon as I looked at the central black shape in this painting that it would have to do with the Underworld. I saw the shapes of those involved in rituals to raise the dead assembling in a circle on the left and conjuring an angel a dark one to guide dead souls. I knew I wanted some souls, though, to be climbing out of the Underworld on their own; these are at the left end of the entrance to the Pit. The black figures on the right might be