Her Modern Day Halo #3 shows a delicate hand placing a circular lens, golden and somewhat tarnished, against the sky perhaps replacing the sun itself. This image is assertive and enigmatic, re-imagining the holy aura from Renaissance paintings as something earthbound yet still generating a mesmerizing radiance. Royal Blue traces a delicate lace pattern hovering over the loveliest cerulean (a color term with its origins in the Latin for heaven) this side of a Bellini Virgin. As in many of Souders’ images, Royal Blue seems to emit luminescence as if it were not simply reflecting celestial light but was the source of it. With nary a horizon line, her soft colors, and fragments of objects, scatter across her frames as if in a pastel archeological dig. Hers is a world of images that limn the space between the material world and the illusive realm of appearances.