rosy-hued magic vs. the big green techno-mace

I was really fired up when I finished this collage: it captures a battle that was going on in my psyche, is the only way I know how to explain it.

Sources: background (altered) from Sherwood Forlee's Walls Notebook (from Chronicle Books: highly recommended!); matchbox cover from WackyStuff; lion & hand w/ roses from 1887 & 1912 paintings by John William Waterhouse; green baton from Marvel Comics postcard (cover of Mighty Thor). The handwritten symbols are John Dee's Monas Hieroglyphica & 4 letters from an alchemy treatise.