Time Loop

I'm reading Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke. Its a fantastic, chaotic, brain-razed book about the Viet Nam war. A few days ago I watched Werner Herzog's Rescue Dawn.....a movie about the same subject from a very different point of view.
Meanwhile my son is studying the 60's in school.
I found these images of my own floating in the same universe but created in a very different time zone.......

Embrace

Dark & light, life & death, solid & reflected, green and red...
I look at this painting and see all the tropes of myself right down to the criss-cross of bandages echoed by the X in the grass:
Heart/Ghost

Somewhere in Cimmeria

Sound of Fire

In the Jungle

Here, another war painting about Viet Nam and, in this case, Caravaggio. Its called: Weight of Light. I remember doing research on the machine gun--getting a photo of the exact one they used in Nam, and then rotating it in a drawing to get the perspective right. I don't usually get that obsessive about details, but here it seeemed important. In the Caravaggio (Conversion on the Way to Damascus) its a sword and the helmut is Roman:

Black Sea Lullaby

Now I've gone off on a tangent into my war paintings after posting The Jade Buddha.
Most of them have references to the Viet Nam war, although they often negotiate the dream lands also. This one has embedded itself in my mind in such a way that I perceive it as a dream memory rather than a constructed image. The barriers have become permeable, probably long ago, but I never thought about it till now.