What is indisputable in this recent group of paintings is the influence of my experience in the Peruvian Amazon where I explored various plant medicines indigenous to the jungle.  The paintings are infused with the teachings and visions these plants have gifted to me.  These plant teachers have shown me a glimpse of the world of atomic energy and the spirit helpers of transformation; the healing power of sound and song and prayer.  Here are the crickets and whispering mermaids, the shaman’s icaros and the rattling of leaves.            --Giovanna Cecchetti, 2009