“The Spheres by Carlos Macia is a piece from 1993 made on paper out of colored pencil, gold leaf, ink, letraset, watercolor, and paper collage. Its dimensions are variable. This work is displayed as an open book. The pages have typed text words covered by colored illustrations. The illustrations pan the entire span of the composition with two main figures, one on the left-hand page and another on the right-hand side. Extending from the figure’s left hand towards the second figure to the right is a bright green, curving flower stem with pink petals curling out of its drooping sepals. In lieu of a flower, however, we see a spherical object encapsulated in a blue ring with woven string at its center. It appears as if it were growing out of the flower itself. The center of this object also contains a white banner with zodiac symbols across it. This object is angled diagonally, pointing towards the second figure which is a giant bird, relative to the scale of the first human like-figure. This bird figure is drawn at the very top of the right side of the composition as the human figure starts a few inches down after the text. The bird is illustrated with detailed dark colored markings but not shaded in. it is only the outline and details that are dark. The bird has a long tail that cascades down the far-right hand side of the page leaving only a quarter of the bottom of the page blank. The wings are close to the body of the bird as it looks down, beak facing down to the left facing the human figure seated on the left-hand side of this opened book. The bird has bright blue eyes and is holding the spherical object with its claws.”