Grey portrays the body as translucent, revealing complex anatomical systems and interwoven with glowing subtle energies visible to clairvoyants. After painting the Sacred Mirrors, Grey applied this multidimensional perspective to painted visions of such archetypal human experiences as praying, meditation, dying, kissing, copulating, pregnancy, birth and nursing. Begun in 1979, the series took a period of ten years to complete. A number of those canvases have been inspired by psychedelic and contemplative mystical visions. Grey’s unique series of 21 life-sized paintings, the Sacred Mirrors, which has been translated into five languages, take the viewer on a journey through the physical and metaphysical anatomy of the self by examining, in detail, the body, mind, and spirit of an individual. He spent several years at Harvard Medical School studying human anatomy. Alex Grey was fascinated since adolescence with the themes of mortality and polarity, Alex Grey saw in the human anatomy a microcosm of the many systems and levels of order in nature.
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