Welcome to Nybor Mystical Art

Each month here on my home page I feature one of my pictures and the story that goes with it.
They are many and varied. I sometimes think of the old radio show Naked City.
I think it went something like “There are eight million stories in the naked city.”
Well almost every picture I have ever done has a story, some strange, some humorous, some scary, and some emotional.
I hope you enjoy them.
They are all true.

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January/February 2010

Two friends discuss the nature of reality. The giant with his dark hair and coarse features is as bewildered as is the delicate fairy. Which one asks, “Are you real?” Maybe both. Or perhaps they will turn to you with the question?

While this picture discusses reality it was therapy for me. The Fairy sitting on the Giant’s hand was a young lady who lived with Elspeth and me for two years. We met her at the Georgia Renaissance Fair in 1985. In 1986 she came to live with us. She was, despite a very unhappy and sexually abusive childhood, the most outgoing and cheerful person I have ever met. Since she had never had a father she could trust she asked me to be her father. I agreed and she lived with us for two years.

In 1988 she returned to her home state to help her mother get a divorce. While there she got a job and met a young man, a jazz pianist, who she fell in love with. One evening while walking through a park on returning from his apartment she was caught, dragged into the bushes and raped. When she fought back she was beaten to death.

I could do nothing for three months, then I painted this picture.

In April 2006 as he was to be released from prison a man’s DNA was compared to what had been found under her fingernails.

THEY CAUGHT THE BASTARD.

He is now serving two life terms in prison with no chance of parole.

Are you real? 15” x 15” / 20” x 20” matted $80.00 shipping and handling included