painting. Unfortunately I can't find any high-quality photographs of Holt's canvases, but he refers to them repeatedly in his books. Briefly, in Andalusia in the early 1920s, that was how he made his living. We glimpse a few of his later works in this documentary. In voiceover, he gives the title of the painting above as Christ Overcoming Space and Eternity. "The curvature of his arm," he notes, "is following the curvature of space that was perceived by Einstein in this century. That picture was painted in the barn, where my horse was munching hay."
He stands by another of his tall paintings (eight feet high -- in fact the camera can't seem to take it all in at once and so we never see it in full, hence the janky screenshot). It is called Diadem. It depicts weavers as they sing the hymn of the title at their looms. He said they would always sing at the top of their voices to try to overcome the deafening racket of their machines. "They can't hear their own voice, but they can imagine the music," he says, "and they read each other's lips."
A third painting, for which he gives no title. "Weavers also sometimes meditate -- you see them in deep thought while they are weaving. There's a picture now of some weavers in some deep thought, in the silence that rests at the heart of the looms."