"By Light of Khonsu"
24" x 20" Acrylic © 1/97

A barn owl, common throughout the Northern hemisphere, flies before a time battered visage of Ramses II bathed in moonlight. To the Egyptians the moon was Khonsu, an important diety. Barn owls and the Pleiades starcuster (shown here at the upper right) were also held sacred.