A really gorgeous and a beautiful abstract image, dear Mandi !!! Hugs Karin :)

this is wonderful and i love the colours, Ian

I wish I had time to comment on everything because they're all endlessly compelling, but this one calls for a public comment for sure. Being a lover of maps, I'd naturally fall for this. You've taken a map grid, which seems to center around some circular area, and spread it out for us, and then both seen the art in it & imposed art upon it, using it as a base for a lot of organic activity. You've morphed the colors, transforming it, pushing it, covering it, etc (to me, that's what map art does); you've even articulated the map's "fold lines"—so present in folded maps (which don't always correspond to the longitude & latitude lines, as they don't here)—your colors morph & seep into each other like organic growth or viral activity, you have big sections typified by hue or textural change, and then what appears to be Soviet imagery or something like it. (A man with a hammer & another in some military uniform, all in monolithic red—feels like a parody of Soviet imagery of the 30s, 40s, etc.) I confess I don't know what "secret lady" is, though there's a song by that name; and maybe it's akin to the "dark lady" of literature & myth; maybe it was a name for a city or state of mind...but it doesn't detract, as the whole piece seems like a tome to a mythic state, presence, figure, etc. And your secret lady title (upper right) is done like a 40s or 50s title, properly yellowed & aged. Above all else, the whole feels like a map that has been invaded by decay & turned into an abstract expressionist painting. Marvelous on every level, and you even put a little smiling sun into it, like the suns & blowing cloud-faces on old maps...wonderfully inventive & I love it.