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My name is The Lonely Mystic. I've been known by other names and other faces. I'm on a quest to learn the answers to burning questions, such as which came first the Matzah ball or the chicken? Is sex really safe? Who is the Sandman? Do aliens exist? What happened millions of years ago in the solar system and who was sleeping with whom then? Do club soda bubbles affect brain cells? What to do in the midst of a bank robbery when you are caught holding the bag? These are some of the perplexities facing a time traveling, shape shifting, inter-dimensional and globe trotting Jewish boy from Brooklyn destined to save the world. Plus it is illustrated in 3D!Portraits of a Lonely Mystic in 3D consists of 80 illustrated chapters depicting adventures of The Lonely Mystic. You travel from Canarsie, Brooklyn to places like Tashkent, Tibet and Russia. You visit other dimensions and spiritual places on high. You journey to the subconscious, unconscious, super-conscious and sometimes even remain conscious, but there are no guarantees because this is an unbridled, dubious autobiography of a East New York boy with an unusual past and yet to be explored future.

Confessions of a Lonely Mystic is a collection of ten short stories. The Lonely Mystic recounts encounters with the paranormal. He witnesses an apparition of the recently departed, and Spirit Guides who come in the form of colorful characters or can assume animal shapes. A parade of departed spirits invades his space as do droves of insects and birds. The backdrop can be Mexico, the North East or family experiences in Poland. The time frame can be recent, decades away or during the Holocaust. God and Spirit find ways to clearly reveal their presence and participation in the life of a Lonely Mystic.

ABOUT THE COMMENTS: The first in the series of digital paintings I created was I called Two Women Contemplating the Nature of the Universe. When I looked at it I was surprised to see two figures in the lower left hand corner looking up at the rest of the painting. They appeared to be female. Hence, the "women" part of the title. As to why they were contemplating the nature of the universe? What they were looking at seemed larger than life to me. It looked elemental and atomic like with gyrating movements of light dancing around in the darkness of space. Of course they would be contemplating it since the mind, the heart and the soul attempts to understand what it experiences. For me humor is perhaps one of the greatest healing and transformational art forms that I know. What better way to share these paintings then to have two wise females humorously giving their unbridled opinions on what they were looking at?ABOUT THE ART: Creativity has been a part of my entire life. Early in life, I picked up some pastels and began sketching flowers. As a teenager I turned to the camera and started doing photography at an early age. I picked up a guitar or synthesizer and started to compose, or I picked up some brushes and started to paint. Over the years it has manifested itself in several areas such as photography, music, painting, writing, healing and as of late, cooking and baking.Simultaneous to a driving fascination with ancient philosophies was an attraction to state of the art technologies. I always strove to experiment with the innovative technological advances as they came forward. With painting, the medium used always-communicated its intelligence to me by instructing me how to use it to express both it and myself. Oils taught me fluidity, color, brilliance and longevity; gauche and watercolors taught me patience and precision; Sumi-e taught me speed and tonality; and pastels taught me transitional gentleness and ink drawings taught me exactitude and delineation. However, it wasn't until I was able to waltz with the digital camera that I learned freedom.The camera was the brush and light was the medium. Light danced across my electronic canvas as I played my inspirational compositions. Then I was faced with the creative choice as to how can I take a fluid dancing moment and translate that to a stationary print. After much experimentation, the Print Operas series was created. My intent was to produce a print, which stretched the gamut of color intensity and captured the luminosity, brilliance and multi-dimensionality of the original digital art. To this end, I created what I call Print Operas.When I look at the Print Opera series I can see many of the things that influence my life such as technology, healing energetics, music, gestures and motion, the luminosity of gems, and the brilliance of gold. It was much to my surprise when I also began to see other things too. The seemingly random moments in time and space when synthesized together appeared to whisper and hint at archetypal shapes, dimensional forms and even some stories unfolded. At first I thought that I was creatively fantasizing, but when others, without prompt saw such too. Receptive viewers were entranced by the art experience, as they were absorbed into the Print Opera sequence. They found the experience to be an opportunity of heightened visual excitement coupled with being momentarily transported to a space outside their own. After having created these works, it was much to my surprise and pleasure to see that so many of the diverse influencing aspects of my life could come together the way they did.I look at these works as synchronistic coincidences, which happen to synergistic-ally integrate to produce archetypal innuendos. To me they are simple, complex, bold, dynamic, and deep. I used whatever state of the art computer, video, and photographic technology available to me to create an encapsulated amalgamation of a dance of light.

Confessions of a Lonely Mystic: small talk - is a glimpse into a personal journey towards finding God, love and a place in this world. It is a collection of poems that were written during years of years of searching for a love to be, a way to help facilitate constructive and beneficial changes for this world and develop a personal relationship with God. Within its pages, you the reader travels from the subways of New York City to the heights of Masada in Israel. You journey into the hidden recesses of an ever expanding heart longing for an elusive romance and communion with deity. You listen to the dialogue within an ever active creative imagination and decisive intellect which examines the minutia of everyday life to find hidden meaning and cryptic purpose in the slightest occurrence. Your senses, your sensitivities and your sensibilities will walk away craving for more. Confessions of a Lonely Mystic small talk is a "cookbook" of poetic appetizers that awaken the palate and create a longing for an additional feast of feelings, thoughts and desires. Confessions of a Lonely Mystic short talk, a collection of short stories continues providing nourishment for the soul with the Portraits of a Lonely Mystic series setting the table for the main course yet to come. Please sit down at the table. Remove the napkin and place it on your lap. Move the chair even closer and pour yourself a glass of refreshing, inspiring, comforting, exciting and revealing glimpse into the heart, mind, spirit and soul of a lonely mystic: Misha Ha Baka. Enjoy your meal!

Confessions of a Lonely Mystic: small talk - is a glimpse into a personal journey towards finding God, love and a place in this world. It is a collection of poems that were written during years of years of searching for a love to be, a way to help facilitate constructive and beneficial changes for this world and develop a personal relationship with God. Within its pages, you the reader travels from the subways of New York City to the heights of Masada in Israel. You journey into the hidden recesses of an ever expanding heart longing for an elusive romance and communion with deity. You listen to the dialogue within an ever active creative imagination and decisive intellect which examines the minutia of everyday life to find hidden meaning and cryptic purpose in the slightest occurrence. Your senses, your sensitivities and your sensibilities will walk away craving for more. Confessions of a Lonely Mystic small talk is a "cookbook" of poetic appetizers that awaken the palate and create a longing for an additional feast of feelings, thoughts and desires. Confessions of a Lonely Mystic short talk, a collection of short stories continues providing nourishment for the soul with the Portraits of a Lonely Mystic series setting the table for the main course yet to come. Please sit down at the table. Remove the napkin and place it on your lap. Move the chair even closer and pour yourself a glass of refreshing, inspiring, comforting, exciting and revealing glimpse into the heart, mind, spirit and soul of a lonely mystic: Misha Ha Baka. Enjoy your meal!

ABOUT THE COMMENTS: The first in the series of digital paintings I created was I called Two Women Contemplating the Nature of the Universe. When I looked at it I was surprised to see what appeared, to be two figures in the lower left hand corner looking up at the rest of the painting. They seemed to be female. Hence, the "women" part of the title. As to why they were contemplating the nature of the universe? What they were looking at seemed larger than life to me. It looked elemental and atomic like with gyrating movements of light dancing around in the darkness of space. Of course they would be contemplating it since the mind, the heart and the soul attempts to understand what it experiences. For me humor is perhaps one of the greatest healing and transformational art forms that I know. What better way to share these paintings then to have two wise females humorously giving their unbridled opinions on what they were looking at?ABOUT THE ART: Creativity has been a part of my entire life. Early in life, I picked up some pastels and began sketching flowers. As a teenager I turned to the camera and started doing photography at an early age. I picked up a guitar or synthesizer and started to compose, or I picked up some brushes and started to paint. Over the years it has manifested itself in several areas such as photography, music, painting, writing, healing and as of late, cooking and baking.Simultaneous to a driving fascination with ancient philosophies was an attraction to state of the art technologies. I always strove to experiment with the innovative technological advances as they came forward. With painting, the medium used always-communicated its intelligence to me by instructing me how to use it to express both it and myself. Oils taught me fluidity, color, brilliance and longevity; gauche and watercolors taught me patience and precision; Sumi-e taught me speed and tonality; and pastels taught me transitional gentleness and ink drawings taught me exactitude and delineation. However, it wasn't until I was able to waltz with the digital camera that I learned freedom.The camera was the brush and light was the medium. Light danced across my electronic canvas as I played my inspirational compositions. Then I was faced with the creative choice as to how can I take a fluid dancing moment and translate that to a stationary print. After much experimentation, the Print Operas series was created. My intent was to produce a print, which stretched the gamut of color intensity and captured the luminosity, brilliance and multi-dimensionality of the original digital art. To this end, I created what I call Print Operas.When I look at the Print Opera series I can see many of the things that influence my life such as technology, healing energetics, music, gestures and motion, the luminosity of gems, and the brilliance of gold. It was much to my surprise when I also began to see other things too. The seemingly random moments in time and space when synthesized together appeared to whisper and hint at archetypal shapes, dimensional forms and even some stories unfolded. At first I thought that I was creatively fantasizing, but when others, without prompt saw such too. Receptive viewers were entranced by the art experience, as they were absorbed into the Print Opera sequence. They found the experience to be an opportunity of heightened visual excitement coupled with being momentarily transported to a space outside their own. After having created these works, it was much to my surprise and pleasure to see that so many of the diverse influencing aspects of my life could come together the way they did.I look at these works as synchronistic coincidences, which happen to synergistic-ally integrate to produce archetypal innuendos. To me they are simple, complex, bold, dynamic, and deep. I used whatever state of the art computer, video, and photographic technology available to me to create an encapsulated amalgamation of a dance of light.

My name is The Lonely Mystic. I've been known by other names and other faces. I'm on a quest to learn the answers to burning questions, such as which came first the Matzah ball or the chicken? Is sex really safe? Who is the Sandman? Do aliens exist? What happened millions of years ago in the solar system and who was sleeping with whom then? Do club soda bubbles affect brain cells? What to do in the midst of a bank robbery when you are caught holding the bag? These are some of the perplexities facing a time traveling, shape shifting, inter-dimensional and globe trotting Jewish boy from Brooklyn destined to save the world. Plus it is illustrated in 3D!Portraits of a Lonely Mystic in 3D consists of 80 illustrated chapters depicting adventures of The Lonely Mystic. You travel from Canarsie, Brooklyn to places like Tashkent, Tibet and Russia. You visit other dimensions and spiritual places on high. You journey to the subconscious, unconscious, super-conscious and sometimes even remain conscious, but there are no guarantees because this is an unbridled, dubious autobiography of a East New York boy with an unusual past and yet to be explored future.

A wooden cottage in the woods, amidst some trees and a pond. Its serenity, spirituality and physical beauty were so overwhelming I roamed around taking photographs upon photographs. Photographs, however, were not enough. I had to put words to the images. I had to speak about them. Being The Lonely Mystic that I am, you were my only recourse. Being a city-boy, I dreamed of nature. Dreams can come true. Tree House Pond contains forty photographs and forty poems. This version of the book is in black and white. Much of my formative years were spent viewing the world through Taoist glasses. I was a black and white kind-of-guy. My clothes were black and white. My paintings were black and white. My thinking was Yin and Yang. At some point, I went through a spiritual transformation and opened up to colors. That transformation inspired the second version of the book. Please enjoy your brief visit to Tree House Pond.

Print Operas BW resonate and vibrate, they dance and take flight like music; they sing using the highest and lowest ranges of tones and shades, they delve and dive deeply into the collective consciousness bringing forth energetic statements of ancient themes with futuristic echoes. They are Operas of the Soul. This volume is the black and white version of the series.The first two volumes of the Print Opera series of digital paintings were Two Women Contemplating the Nature of the Universe: Print Operas BW (black and white) Volume 1 and Print Operas (Color) Volume 2. This is Volume 4 and is titled, Two Women, Three Flamingoes and a Pooch: Print Operas BW. It is the black and white version of the book. Volume 3 is the color version of the book and is titled, Two Women, Three Flamingoes and a Pooch: Print Operas.Abstract art is just that - abstract. However, for me it is fun to see the "stract" in the "ab-stract." While I was creating the series, my two women made an encore performance in a new painting. When I looked at the original painting of Two Women Contemplating the Nature of the Universe, I was surprised to see what appeared to be two figures in the lower left hand corner looking up at the rest of the painting. They looked female. This time they reappeared in the lower right hand corner of the painting and brought along three flamingoes and their pooch. It looks like they enjoy walking around. Perhaps it is a multi-colored cocker spaniel? In the previous volumes these two women, (I will let your imagination run wild as to their identity, ) shared their unbridled opinions on the paintings in a humorous manner. For this volume, they respectfully requested to assume a serious demeanor. After all, they did not want you the reader, to walk away thinking that everything is a joke. So herein, they convey their sincere and serious thoughts and feelings about this new series of Print Operas. But, then again, what is serious to some may be quite humorous to another...We art what we are. When I look at the Print Opera series I can see, the technology, the healing energetics, the music, the dance, the luminosity of gems, and the brilliance of metals. All of which echo elements of my experience. It was also much to my surprise when I began to see other things in them too. The seemingly random moments in time and space when synthesized together appeared to whisper and hint at archetypal shapes, dimensional forms and even some stories unfolded. At first I thought that I was creatively fantasizing, but when others, without prompt saw such too, I knew that this was not a subjective experience. Receptive viewers were entranced by the art experience, as they were absorbed into the Print Opera sequence. They found the experience to be an opportunity of heightened visual excitement coupled with being momentarily transported to a space outside their own. Subsequent viewings were opportunities for a discovery of new aspects which were previously unseen. For me stationary, visual art is a mini-vacation. Like watching a film, you leave your present circumstances and travel elsewhere, even if only for a few moments. To me, the more successful the work, the longer you can stay in it and revisit it over and over again. After having created these works, it was much to my surprise and pleasure to see that so many of the diverse influencing aspects of my life could come together the way they did.Thank you for visiting my literary art gallery yet again. For the first time visitor, you are invited to visit Volumes 1 and 2 of Two Women Contemplating the Nature of the Universe, and most importantly. Enjoy.

ABOUT THE COMMENTS: The first in the series of digital paintings I created was I called Two Women Contemplating the Nature of the Universe. When I looked at it I was surprised to see what appeared, to be two figures in the lower left hand corner looking up at the rest of the painting. They seemed to be female. Hence, the "women" part of the title. As to why they were contemplating the nature of the universe? What they were looking at seemed larger than life to me. It looked elemental and atomic like with gyrating movements of light dancing around in the darkness of space. Of course they would be contemplating it since the mind, the heart and the soul attempts to understand what it experiences. For me humor is perhaps one of the greatest healing and transformational art forms that I know. What better way to share these paintings then to have two wise females humorously giving their unbridled opinions on what they were looking at?ABOUT THE ART: Creativity has been a part of my entire life. Early in life, I picked up some pastels and began sketching flowers. As a teenager I turned to the camera and started doing photography at an early age. I picked up a guitar or synthesizer and started to compose, or I picked up some brushes and started to paint. Over the years it has manifested itself in several areas such as photography, music, painting, writing, healing and as of late, cooking and baking.Simultaneous to a driving fascination with ancient philosophies was an attraction to state of the art technologies. I always strove to experiment with the innovative technological advances as they came forward. With painting, the medium used always-communicated its intelligence to me by instructing me how to use it to express both it and myself. Oils taught me fluidity, color, brilliance and longevity; gauche and watercolors taught me patience and precision; Sumi-e taught me speed and tonality; and pastels taught me transitional gentleness and ink drawings taught me exactitude and delineation. However, it wasn't until I was able to waltz with the digital camera that I learned freedom.The camera was the brush and light was the medium. Light danced across my electronic canvas as I played my inspirational compositions. Then I was faced with the creative choice as to how can I take a fluid dancing moment and translate that to a stationary print. After much experimentation, the Print Operas series was created. My intent was to produce a print, which stretched the gamut of color intensity and captured the luminosity, brilliance and multi-dimensionality of the original digital art. To this end, I created what I call Print Operas.When I look at the Print Opera series I can see many of the things that influence my life such as technology, healing energetics, music, gestures and motion, the luminosity of gems, and the brilliance of gold. It was much to my surprise when I also began to see other things too. The seemingly random moments in time and space when synthesized together appeared to whisper and hint at archetypal shapes, dimensional forms and even some stories unfolded. At first I thought that I was creatively fantasizing, but when others, without prompt saw such too. Receptive viewers were entranced by the art experience, as they were absorbed into the Print Opera sequence. They found the experience to be an opportunity of heightened visual excitement coupled with being momentarily transported to a space outside their own. After having created these works, it was much to my surprise and pleasure to see that so many of the diverse influencing aspects of my life could come together the way they did.I look at these works as synchronistic coincidences, which happen to synergistic-ally integrate to produce archetypal innuendos. To me they are simple, complex, bold, dynamic, and deep. I used whatever state of the art computer, video, and photographic technology available to me to create an encapsulated amalgamation of a dance of ligh

The first in the series of digital paintings I created was I called Two Women Contemplating the Nature of the Universe. When I looked at it I was surprised to see two figures in the lower left hand corner looking up at the rest of the painting. They appeared to be female. Hence, the "women" part of the title. As to why they were contemplating the nature of the universe? What they were looking at seemed larger than life to me. It looked like elemental and atomic, with gyrating movements of light dancing around in the darkness of space. Of course they would be contemplating it, the mind, the heart and the soul attempts to understand what it experiences. Humor is perhaps one of the greatest healing and transformational art forms that I know. What better way to share these paintings then to have two wise females humorously giving their unbridled opinions on what they were looking at?Creativity has been a part of my entire life. As a child, I picked up some pastels and began sketching flowers. As a teenager I turned to the camera and started doing photography at an early age. I picked up a guitar or synthesizer and started to compose, or I picked up some brushes and started to paint. Over the years it has manifested itself in several areas such as photography, music, painting, writing, healing and of late, cooking and baking.Simultaneous to a driving fascination with ancient philosophies was an addiction to state of the art technologies. I always strove to experiment with the innovative technological advances as they came forward. With painting, the medium used always-communicated its intelligence to me by instructing me how to use it to express both it and myself. Oils taught me fluidity, color, brilliance and longevity; gauche and watercolors taught me patience and precision; Sumi-e taught me speed and tonality; and pastels taught me transitional gentleness and ink drawings taught me exactitude and delineation. However, it wasn't until I was able to waltz with the digital camera that I learned freedom.The camera was the brush and light was the medium. Light danced across my electronic canvas as I played my inspirational compositions. Then I was faced with the creative choice as to how can I take a fluid dancing moment and translate that to a stationary print. After much experimentation, the Print Operas series was created. My intent was to produce a print, which stretched the gamut of color intensity and captured the luminosity, brilliance and multi-dimensionality of the original digital art. To this end, I created what I call Print Operas.When I look at the Print Opera series I can see many of the things that influence my life such as technology, healing energetics, music, gestures and motion, the luminosity of gems, and the brilliance of gold. It was much to my surprise when I also began to see other things too. The seemingly random moments in time and space when synthesized together appeared to whisper and hint at archetypal shapes, dimensional forms and even some stories unfolded. At first I thought that I was creatively fantasizing, but when others, without prompt saw such too. Receptive viewers were entranced by the art experience, as they were absorbed into the Print Opera sequence. They found the experience to be an opportunity of heightened visual excitement coupled with being momentarily transported to a space outside their own. After having created these works, it was much to my surprise and pleasure to see that so many of the diverse influencing aspects of my life could come together the way they did.I look at these works as synchronistic coincidences, which happen to synergistic-ally integrate to produce archetypal innuendos. To me they are simple, complex, bold, dynamic, and deep. I used whatever state of the art computer, video, and photographic technology available to me to create an encapsulated amalgamation of a dance of light.

Confessions of a Lonely Mystic short talk is a collection of ten short stories. The Lonely Mystic recounts encounters with the paranormal. He witnesses an apparition of the recently departed, and Spirit Guides who come in the form of colorful characters or can assume animal shapes. A parade of departed spirits invades his space as do droves of insects and birds. The backdrop can be Mexico, the North East or family experiences in Poland. The time frame can be recent, decades away or during the Holocaust. God and Spirit find ways to clearly reveal their presence and participation in the life of a Lonely Mystic.

Print Operas sparkles like gems and gold, they dance and takes flight like music, they sings with the highest and lowest ranges of color and shade, they delve and dive deeply into the collective consciousness bringing forth energetic statements of ancient themes with futuristic echoes. They are "Operas of the Soul". This is the color version of the series. The first two volumes of the Print Opera series of digital paintings were Two Women Contemplating the Nature of the Universe: Print Operas BW and Print Operas (Color). This is Volume 3 and is titled, Two Women, Three Flamingoes and a Pooch: Print Operas. It is the color version of the book. Abstract art is just that - abstract. However, for me it is fun to see the "stract" in the "ab-stract." While I was creating the series, my two women made an encore performance in a new painting. When I looked at the original painting of Two Women Contemplating the Nature of the Universe, I was surprised to see what appeared to be two figures in the lower left hand corner looking up at the rest of the painting. They looked female. This time they reappeared in the lower right hand corner of the painting and brought along three flamingoes and their pooch. It looks like they enjoy walking around. Perhaps it is a multi-colored cocker spaniel? In the previous volumes these two women, (I will let your imagination run wild as to their identity, ) shared their unbridled opinions on the paintings in a humorous manner. For this volume, they respectfully requested to assume a serious demeanor. After all, they did not want you the reader, to walk away thinking that everything is a joke. So herein, they convey their sincere and serious thoughts and feelings about this new series of Print Operas. But, then again, what is serious to some may be quite humorous to another...We art what we are. When I look at the Print Opera series I can see, the technology, the healing energetics, the music, the dance, the luminosity of gems, and the brilliance of metals. All of which echo elements of my experience. It was also much to my surprise when I began to see other things in them too. The seemingly random moments in time and space when synthesized together appeared to whisper and hint at archetypal shapes, dimensional forms and even some stories unfolded. At first I thought that I was creatively fantasizing, but when others, without prompt saw such too, I knew that this was not a subjective experience. Receptive viewers were entranced by the art experience, as they were absorbed into the Print Opera sequence. They found the experience to be an opportunity of heightened visual excitement coupled with being momentarily transported to a space outside their own. Subsequent viewings were opportunities for a discovery of new aspects which were previously unseen. For me stationary, visual art is a mini-vacation. Like watching a film, you leave your present circumstances and travel elsewhere, even if only for a few moments. To me, the more successful the work, the longer you can stay in it and revisit it over and over again. After having created these works, it was much to my surprise and pleasure to see that so many of the diverse influencing aspects of my life could come together the way they did.Thank you for visiting my literary art gallery yet again. For the first time visitor, you are invited to visit Volumes 1 and 2 of Two Women Contemplating the Nature of the Universe, and most importantly. Enjoy.

A wooden cottage in the woods, amidst some trees and a pond.Serenity, spirituality and physical beauty were so overwhelming that I roamed around taking photographs upon photographs. Photographs, however, were not enough. I had to put words to images. I had to speak about it. Being The Lonely Mystic that I am, you were my only recourse. Being a city-boy, I dreamed of nature.Dreams can come true.Living in the country is filled with color. I chose to combine my Taoist influences and spiritual awakenings into one, hence DOUBLE TAKE - two ways to see one world. It then occurred to me to do the book two ways also: One version just black and white and the other version black and white and color. This is the color and black and white version.I hope you enjoy my art. I hope you enjoy my poetry and I hope you enjoy your visit to Tree House Pond.

Abstract art is just that - abstract. However, for me it is fun to see the stract in the abstract. While I was creating the series, my two women from Volume 1 made an encore performance in a second painting. Looking at the original painting of Two Women Contemplating the Nature of the Universe, I was surprised to see two female looking figures in the lower left hand corner looking up at the rest of the painting. In Volume 3 they reappeared in the lower right hand corner of the painting and brought along three flamingoes and their pooch. They must enjoy going for leisurely strolls. I was very much surprised when the women reappeared a second time, but I was even more surprised when two males appeared in the lower left hand corner of a third painting. This added to the fact that there were faint glimmers of two women in the lower right hand corner as well as one of the original ones with hands crossed, looking down at the two men. The men were looking right up at her, but I'm not sure that they noticed her. It looked like she noticed them. So the question now became: What were these two men looking at and what were they thinking?Two Men Contemplating the Nature of Women and the Universe consists of 18 digital prints in color and 18 digital prints in black and white. Each one is accompanied by comments by the men and women as noted above. The first two volumes of the Print Opera series of digital paintings were Two Women Contemplating the Nature of the Universe: Print Operas BW (black and white) and Print Operas (color). The second two volumes of the Print Opera series of digital paintings were Two Women, Three Flamingoes and a Pooch: Print Operas BW (black and white) and Print Operas (color).This new work is the 5th installment of the Print Opera series.

My name is The Lonely Mystic. I've been known by other names and other faces. I'm on a quest to learn the answers to burning questions, such as which came first the Matzah ball or the chicken? Is sex really safe? Who is the Sandman? Do aliens exist? What happened millions of years ago in the solar system and who was sleeping with whom then? Do club soda bubbles affect brain cells? What to do in the midst of a bank robbery when you are caught holding the bag? These are some of the perplexities facing a time traveling, shape shifting, inter-dimensional and globe trotting Jewish boy from Brooklyn destined to save the world. Plus it is illustrated in color.Portraits of a Lonely Mystic consists of 80 illustrated chapters depicting adventures of The Lonely Mystic. You travel from Canarsie, Brooklyn to places like Tashkent, Tibet and Russia. You visit other dimensions and spiritual places on high. You journey to the subconscious, unconscious, super-conscious and sometimes even remain conscious, but there are no guarantees because this is an unbridled, dubious autobiography of a East New York boy with an unusual past and yet to be explored future.