When viewing “The Soul Having Flown”, we experience the age-old question, "what remains once the soul has left the body?" The attempt to answer that esoteric question is addressed, on one level, in a somewhat scientific manner in this dramatic painting, as we observe the image of a human body, lying prone on an examination table. The artist enhances this scientific approach by incorporating x-ray images of a variety of body parts, which appear in clinical fashion above the skeleton. Bright red paint heightens the intensity of the scientific scene, while at the same time suggests the life-sustaining blood that once coursed through the veins of this individual. While the scene may be technical on the one level, we also experience a tremendous spiritual force in this painting, perhaps suggesting that the question of the soul and its existence cannot be answered in mere scientific, anatomical terms--rather, that ponderous question might be better addressed by the mystic, whose knowledge and authority rests on another plane entirely. It is a question, in the end, we may never be able to answer. However, the soul having flown, compels us to examine this complex issue in a most intriguing and stimulating manner.