In my M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition I showed a painting in the format of a panorama. The size of the painting is 3' high and stretches to 70 feet. The painting comes in two sections of 35' each and one section is the inverted version of the other. Depicted on the painting is a landscape. The landscape came from a black and white postcard, the most generic I had available. I found it at a thrift store. I digitized this postcard and applied a little bit of almost every filter that was available in the Photoshop computer program. This filtering, where the computer generates color out of a colorless picture, I liken to the medieval science of alchemy. For it is written, 'when blackness appears, then you must rejoice'. It is with black (the unconscious) where alchemy starts. In the color black takes place a certain unity of the male and female. Alchemy is the science of transformation. In alchemy every transformation has a spiritual meaning.