Star Gazer, 1929

Barbara Haskell: Star Gazer has a star up in the upper part of the picture as a suggestion of that transcendent spirit rising up beyond the physical, which is represented by mountains, to this world of the spirit. There's a vessel that is illuminated by this magical light, the light of God, the light of truth, those images and metaphors that very much are part of the experience of her work.

And then inside this vessel is a flower bud suggesting really the beginning of a new life, that sense of rebirth that comes with spiritual awareness. She began to introduce symbols like stars, flowers, vessels, mountains into her work as symbols of the journey to the other world, this journey that she experienced in dreams and meditation of seeking, finding, a union with what she called divine reality, the universal principle.