"For this one I made the stand and the frame and built the whole thing up before I started painting.  We went to Jerusalem before this one, because that was when Sabra and Mike took us to see this monk who lived all alone, the last monk - and I don't know what kind of monk he was.  He was some sort of monk.  We went on our way to Jericho, and it was in the desert - very, very white desert.  There were half-buried jeeps and tanks from the war and stuff, left over.  We walked up to the place and it was all walled in with flowers and vines and things around the walls.  There was a bell-pull and Mike pulled the bell, but there was no answer, there was just the sound of bees buzzing around the flowers. He called and called, but there was no answer, just a rooster crowing.  And we thought, oh the poor man, maybe he has died all by himself there.  Then we started walking around the monastery, just to see... We kind of got separated and I was kind of alone.  I went into this door I found open and there was a sort of a courtyard with some goat skins and some goat bones, as if somebody had eaten a goat.  And then I walked up - they had ladders, because things were all falling to pieces, and there was a corridor where they had cells, the monk cells.  I just stopped and I looked at one.  I looked out one of the windows and I saw the brilliant desert with light coming in, and I had the feeling of a presence of somebody who'd been there and had left.  And so that's the beginning of it, that's the source of Light that comes, and it's one of the panels. 

"The first panel is the very primitive one which I got a lot from Celtic and Druid stuff - a lot of hidden fears underneath, a lot of things underground that had to do with control, and the Light's behind them.  Then I sort of go through the early Egyptian, Jewish - I mix things up.  I have an Ark of the Covenant on a Ethiopian temple - a rocky Ethiopian temple - but sort of to give the idea of a Light coming through.  And through the Indian, and through the Buddhist, the different paths.  And the Christian, and then it comes to the intellectual, in which the Light's still there, but there's an awful lot of ladders to go up and down."