"Cleansing the Invisible Man" by Brain Mains (NY, b. 1950), watercolor and white pencil on paper, signed and titled on back, dated 2004, label on back from Hunsaker Schlesinger Gallery, Santa Monica, framed - 17"x21".
 
Born in New York, Mains received his BFA from the University of Houston.  Per his own words, Mains see his art as, "In a general sense, my work focuses on the ideas of change and transformation. I decided on this focus once I recognized that everything in the universe inevitably and continuously changes and transforms. That is, when I realized that change is the force that renews life, impels identities to shift, and ultimately unifies all things. As such, I see life as a dynamic reality containing a vast array of processes, including the drama of the passage of life and the wonder of the creation of new life. When these processes are contemplated from a personal perspective they give rise to profound philosophic, spiritual, and religious questions like - Where do we come from? What happens to us when we die? What is the purpose and nature of life? Thinking about these questions makes one conscious of self, life, and mortality and produces the startling realization of one's tenuous existence. In the end these ideas present themselves to me in a myriad of rich and thought-provoking ways and lead me as an artist to comment on the mystery of life and the incomprehensible nature of our existence."