"Ritual"2013, by Marc Salz, oil/gessoed ragboard, 22"-17.5". This is the first of nine of my paintings  that were done during the last two years in my former studio. Please click on each of these photos to enlarge them and scroll down for more. 

The painting is part of my series titled “The Songs Of The Earth”. I took the title from Gustav Mahler’s (1860-1911) song cycle “The Song Of The Earth”. In the cycle, the voices emerge from the orchestra as they would from the earth or the ocean only to sink back in when the songs end. In my case, it’s a whisper of paint emerging from a white ground towards color and light.