This five panel altarpiece goes back to our roots, a plea for togetherness and fair play and features a few other earthly creatures with which we have shared our planet through recent time. It is the last act in the stage play. Act III is a glossy oil painting done on specially prepared canvas and has been made with heavy duty stretchers. It was painted in 1983, but only exhibited at my NYU masters exhibition and at the International Peace Exhibition at Westbeth Gallery in NYC the very next year. The artwork measures 216" (18 feet) in length and 54" (4.5') high. Of the five panels, two are panels 54" square that fit on the ends, and they can be switched around and brought together to form an abstract set of paintings (as these end caps can also be reversed - see photos!) Three separate central panels are standing, and are in a long rectangular arrangement, or can even be hung individually. You get 5 x 5 = 25 or more (if you think really abstractly and start turning the panels upside down, or on the corners) possibilities and combinations with this art piece, as the different panels can be combined around together in various forms and arrangements, and if you have the room, it looks fantastic together in one piece, as a large stage act. It looks great spread out as well, and functions fairly well in whatever possible combination in which you wish to place it. This gives the owner, gallery director, or member of the public a choice in its arrangement. Because of it's two square end panels, it can be bent around walls quite nicely, or hung around the room on two, three, four, or five different walls. This animal scene stands, as an altarpiece and the last act in a tragic unfinished play. It can represent many things, the beginnings of a new working together in peace. Each panel is available as a separate entity and the paintings can be hung separately, or in unique combinations, and will function individually, as a wildlife painting, or as an abstract, but the true meaning or content of the piece exists in the whole and as a warning against war. One possible meaning to this work is that the Red Curtain side is on the left and represents Communism. The Red Russian Bear stands for the East and the Green Curtain as the Capitalistic side, located to the right. The Green Eagle stands for the West, while the more neutral colored, or saddened blue deer are the worlds people caught in the struggle between these great technological powers. A main feature in the artwork is a long peaceful, white stage (or wall) running across the landscape. The white stage effectively cutting you off from the lower half of the art and it makes many wonder (despite the scratching strokes in the white) why it is not finished. Note: It was painted years before the wall dividing Berlin was removed, but even after 1990 and the removal of The Wall, the general idea is back and more current than ever! The white wilderness also embodies a cleansing snow, a polluted environment, a desert, peacefulness, or war, or a wilderness wiped out by a nuclear war. With luck, if we all stop and learn to work together in harmony, it could be a new fresh start. It is all glossy white with some hidden by the colors, like the hidden truths that the population never hears, until much later. The white lower section of the canvas has been cleansed and is a beautiful pure white. It joins all the sections together, When we think of white we think of brides on their wedding day and the animals are on it's altar, of a sort and could be sacrificial. The end curtains to the stage could actually be nuclear blasts going up, with the hidden faces of the populations contained therein. Look closely into the paint and look for them. Note: In the green side there are many more faces than on the red, as these are all the people I know from my own personal experience. On the red side, not as many through my own experience from where I live. Note: This is the beauty of Artbreak and the Internet today! The curtains could be shutting to a close, or opening even farther. When the panels are brought together, as seen in the photos, you get a bold complementary colored abstract work with opposite colors working together. The panels also exist as a separate entity and nature statement against pollution and destruction of the environment.