Kajamunya, oil on panel collage, 12x78", 2024.
Based on the Kajamunya Tales by Richard Wizansky.
"Kajamunya, an ancient and accomplished civilization, looms out of the foothills of a rocky yet fertile land as the largest mountain in all the neighboring country. It was settled... by a wandering band of scholars who had left their native land in search of a place which would be more suitable to their growing spiritual and intellectual awareness."
"Much of life here is an attempt to recreate or rediscover the values and joie de vivre of Kajamunya, the land of our forefathers to which all of us are heir. All of that experience, now so vague, is scented with only the fondest recollections of a supremely tender and joyous history, almost as if life there were spun from some ecstatic dream or waking reverie which quickly fades when one remembers. Yet all of us know in a moment of quiet revelation, or in that mysterious acknowledgment that what is happening now has surely happened somewhere before in some other time..."
Written by Richard Wizansky and included in the book Home Comfort: Stories and Scenes of Life on Total Loss Farm, Saturday Review Press (January 1, 1973).