Text from Homerin's book concerning the painting:
Ts Selves (147 x 66 x 6 cm; oil & acrylic on canvas) is part of Mark Staff Brandl's Metonymic Series in which he enlarges aspects of an image into apparent abstractions thereby transposing essential physical, visual and spiritual continuities (hence, metonymy). Ts Selves is composed of three independent panels which resonate in their primary colors and enigmatic black shapes. The latter's resemblance to calligraphy is the key as each panel visually echoes one of the Arabic sounds ta, ti, or tu. In Arabic, the second person past tense is often formed by suffixing either the masculine ta or feminine ti to the verb, but changed to the first person it becomes tu, which may be either masculine or feminine. Here, Brandl refers directly to v. 218 of the Poem of the Sufi Way by Ibn al-Fārid which underscores his central message that lovers in union transcend duality as "You" and "I" become "me." Brandl mirrors this syntax in his forms which compose and grow out of the central axis of the work, suggesting a quiet, guided chaos to creation and mystical union."
 --- Th. Emil Homerin