Marcia Manzello created this striking electronic collage by combining Peggy Hammond’s 2003 portrait of me http://www.pbase.com/image/33919891) with my own 2007 photograph of a Confucian Temple in Nanjing, China. http://www.pbase.com/image/86307890) By placing Peggy’s portrait of me, which relies largely on hands, just below the crossed hands of Confucius, she creates a strong symbolic linkage that expresses thought. I am struggling to know, while the serene hands of Confucius seem to already know. The incense sticks and smoke add a spiritual context to this linkage. Marcia speaks here of what I am and what I do -- I put much thought into my work, and then I teach what I learn. Marcia takes what had been reality, and by copying, pasting, merging and blending two images into one, she expresses her idea beautifully through fantasy.