5The paintings and poems of Terry Hauptman are mature in conception and excite the resonant issues of our day with visceral and spiritual overtones. Terry has written that her works often focus on a Phoenix them of hope rising from tragedy. They churn the blood of our past into an informed metaphor, which transcends a temporal definition. Her images urge on the symbolic. Their figures and potent calls shrieking and whimpering assert echoes of ancestry that resound in the chambers of today. Through a curious eye they utter, whisper and choke us with tentative movements that blend reality, history, dreams, sand, water, wine, blood to intimate an unforeseen direction comprising a part of humankind's silhouette. Our eyes water from the sophisticated plan which, in essence, remains hidden from sight.