“You should look at certain walls stained with damp, or at stones of uneven color. If you have to invent some backgrounds you will be able to see in these the likeness of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, woods, great plains, hills and valleys in great variety; and then again you will see their battles and strange figures in violent action, expressions of faces and clothes and an infinity of things which you will be able to reduce to their complete and proper forms. In such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of bells, in whose stroke you may find every named word which you can imagine.”
―Leonardo da Vinci, A Treatise on Painting

I love everything Peanuts, and especially Snoopy, who now, as they have always since I was a child, transported me into other realms of great spiritual feeling. For Soul Snoopy I chose an old patinaed Sunday strip that had Snoopy in a perfect contrapposto-like swaying pose of total chillaxation, a mood and way of being that seems to withstand all tumult and anxiety with transcendent grace and balance. In these turbulent times, it was a perfect icon to meditate onto, to suture into, and to be transported masking into the Snoopy spirit world.

While I was there painting, like the Da Vinci quote above, the ink and paper pulp suggested forms and figures, almost like a hour glass or crystal ball of souls, like a non-denominational Buddha that millions were meditating onto and being transported into other realms, or catching, like moths to a flame, spirit beings that were also gravitating to the Snoopy iconic being of equilibrium.

Charles Schulz was deeply spiritual, in his later life, in a non-denominational way, and I would like to think that each of his avatars carried with them his message for peace love and unity, hopefully brought to life once again in my honorific appropriation, befitting for our times to give us peace!