Abstract art generates psychic and spiritual liberation by releasing the mind from perception of realistically defined figures.  Sometimes abstract images evoke concrete forms and at other times the senses are stimulated by fantasy imagery of surreal materiality that floats between known forms and exploration of previously unimagined possibilities.  Michael Braun's imagery is unique in its abstractness in that depth and texture are present without being definable in terms of physical experience.  The universe evoked is one that is strikingly familiar while remaining elusive.  The effect is a beckoning of the imagination and spirit to dream of infinite planes of existence where the senses are nourished without being governed or constrained.