The plexiglas sculpture is from the Pyramidal Ecstasy Exerzises (sic) of Arias-Misson. In a letter to the Sackners, he stated that "they are without doubt the most concentrated and beautiful work I have done... a joyous affair built on the proportions of the Cheops; first I became fascinated by the compelling geometrical forces of the Pyramid, as angles and slopes and proportions created a grammar of relations between the figures I was working with.The theory of numbers, the enormous equation at the heart of the Pyramid, is not irrelevant to this mental energy. The Pyramid, unlike the Western spiritual structures, which soar upward from the ground, appears to have crashed from a void at its summit (the uncompleted golden pyramidal point) to the ground with a geomagnetic intensity. The figures on the walls and inside the pyramids come from the various shamanistic cultures of the world (Polynesian, African, Mayan, Vaudou etc.) which I feel can cluster in this all-encompassing spiritual/symbolic construction, along with two figures which appear in every pyramid: Psyche (my psychic figure with wings) and Fata (the fairy figure of the beloved). The texts are intense meditations on the significance of each figure and its relations with the others, and are handwritten in silver. The bases are black and reflect the silvery figures in a ghostly reversed pyramid...The Pyramid, curiously, like the angels, triangulates the passion relation between Psyche and Fata, along with the Shamanic figures: spiritualizes it."On a more personal note, Arias-Misson writes that the figures in the pyramid contained in the Sackner Archive "are all Birdmen from Easter Island, unique beaked & wingless, gauche creatures unable to liberate themselves - like the Polynesian people who settled there...The two observant figures flying outside are my psychic figure & Fiore's [Misson's companion] magic (fairy) figure. Their shamanic theatre places our love relation in the shamanic trance-field." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.