Painting elements:
Heart as Emotional, Mind as Rational
Roof Panel Elements: Attempt at reconciliation between the Mysterium Tremendum and the Rational
Roof 1: Rudolf Otto's Theory of the Numinous, Initial "creature feeling" causing the shudder and stupor which translates into a feeling of the Sacred, Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh, which the Seraphim repeat endlessly at the altar of that God. The Profane as unholy and unaffected by the Numinous, psychological explanations of the matrix of religion, Rolling Stones from Exile on Main Street Just want to see his face, The creation of Sacred Constructs to bring Order to Chaos. the Idea of the Holy, Rudolf Otto and The Sacred and the Profane, Mircea Eliade.
Roof 2: Excerpts on death and the unknown from Don Delillo's White Noise, Wallace Steven's Sunday Morning, W.B. Yeats, Lucille Clifton, Odia Ofeimum Landing on the Moon, HD.
Panel 2, thanks to Katherine Case