Paintings for the Temple

Her central project, The Paintings for the Temple, runs to 193 works made between 1906 and 1915. Some stand over 10 feet tall.

They trace big themes — duality, growth, the link between matter and spirit. Color carries meaning: blue stands for the feminine, yellow for the masculine, and green for the two in balance.

Her notebooks show this was no random doodling. She built a strict visual code, blending Theosophy, ideas about evolution, and close study of plants.

Every shape and shade followed a rule. A spiral, a particular blue, a paired flower — each was a symbol meant to chart unseen patterns she believed shaped the living world.