"Fusionism"
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By early 1953 Smarkusz had fully developed his early Fusionism style of imagery into a conceptually abstract fusion of mythical themes and sensual forms.
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In a somewhat surrealist way, Smarkusz expresses themes of the absurd and the disturbing - with imagery that is meant to be visually confusing and emotionally challenging. He was in his early thirties when he created Fusionism at the peak of his most abstract figurative work.
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Vesta is the ancient Roman virgin goddess of the family and hearth. She is charged with renewing the sacred fire of Vesta, which is symbolically renewed every year on the first of March near the Vernal Equinox in the modern Roman Italian custom of Religio Romana. This is in essence a rite of spring which culminates in June with the festival Vestalia.
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Mythical Beings emerge suspended within the dreamscape realms of Fusionism
High Flight
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds, — and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of — wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hov'ring there,
I've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air. . . .
I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I've trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.