"Stupa Garden", the physical painting, is now on sale. The name was changed to "El Bethel". The painting was made in an earlier time-period in the artist's life. To the artist, it is about color, light and form--a venture in creativity.
However, a Stupa can be a conical mound (see historical explanation below), where Buddhist nuns and monks are buried. So, we would like to sell the painting.
Genesis 35 (NKJ):
"35 Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel and dwell there; and make an altar there to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother.”
2 And Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, “Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments. 3 Then let us arise and go up to Bethel; and I will make an altar there to God, who answered me in the day of my distress and has been with me in the way which I have gone.” 4 So they gave Jacob all the foreign [a]gods which were in their hands, and the earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree which was by Shechem.
5 And they journeyed, and the terror of God was upon the cities that were all around them, and they did not pursue the sons of Jacob. 6 So Jacob came to Luz (that is, Bethel), which is in the land of Canaan, he and all the people who were with him. 7 And he built an altar there and called the place [b]El Bethel, because there God appeared to him when he fled from the face of his brother."
Research (Wiki):
Some authors have suggested that stupas were derived from a wider cultural tradition from the Mediterranean to the Ganges Valley[8] and can be related to the conical mounds on circular bases from the 8th century BCE that are found in Phrygia (tomb of Midas, 8th c. BCE), Lydia (tomb of Alyattes, 6th c. BCE), or in Phoenicia (tombs of Amrit, 5th c. BCE).[9][10] Some authors suggest stupas emerged from megalithic mound burials with chambers, which likely represent proto-stupas
El Bethel (formerly Stupa Garden) Size: 49.5 x 65 cm Media: Pastel on Canson paper Year: 2004 1,000 signed and numbered prints available.