Raising the Dead - Surreal Landscape Painting pink and blue paintings In this painting

In this painting

There are two dark figures in the painting who

and the possible relationships between the Watchers and the Nephilim on one hand and the Babylonian exorcism priests and the demons they dealt with on the other

I did the illustrations based on the Hebrew handwriting used in the work's manuscript from the 1500s

Raising the Dead - Surreal Landscape Painting pink and blue paintings In this paintingI knew as soon as I looked at the central black shape in this painting that it would have to do with the Underworld. I saw the shapes of those involved in rituals to raise the dead assembling in a circle on the left and conjuring an angel a dark one to guide dead souls. I knew I wanted some souls, though, to be climbing out of the Underworld on their own; these are at the left end of the entrance to the Pit. The black figures on the right might be