This web site presents The Amaranthine Museum, a body of work created by Les Harris from 1976 to 2001. With over 6,000 visitors to the Museum, the overwhelming expression after visiting typically is: I cant believe this exists!

When engaged in a conversation with Les Harris about the Amaranthine Museum, the first thing you will notice is his passionate retelling of the origin and development of the museums spaces. The museum is inspired by the stain glass stories of Chartres. Cathedral. This inspiration developed in to a style of art Les defines as Maximalism.

The Amaranthine spaces are examples of the Greek heroic tradition (the synthesis of art as craft and art as Manıs desire to order the chaos of Nature). The Museum presents Lesı journey into the Hermetic alphabet, which leads to his Maximalist investigations of all of civilized manıs art making.

The Amaranthine Museum is a fascinating and important investigation of an artists independent inquiry of Mans identity. Les thinks of himself as the middleman of the Museumıs manifestation. Les continually asks himself How did this happen?

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