The highly anticipated, first major presentation of the Spirits Collection brought Blake’s artworks back to his native land after decades abroad allowed him to expand his vision and return not only with a body of work years in the refining, but with the artistic partnership that had reshaped it. The Spirits collection’s abiding inquiry : partial figures challenge the classical form by shifting attention toward negative space, leading the viewer inward toward an exploration of our inner landscape, where aesthetic ideals give way to introspection, and imagination.