"Beyond the Pale" is an old expression meaning beyond the boundary, beyond the accepted norm, A "pale" was a wooden stake placed as a marker indicating a property line. The subject in this piece is a dreamer, a bohemian, left-thinking, artist-type whose views where once a part of our culture and now are discarded along with lava lamps, black lights and bell bottoms. His old, like-minded comrades are now attorneys and bankers who have become of the same money-changing ilk they once all spoke against so many years ago. Yet he stuck to his beliefs, still yearning for "death to the machine" and continuing to desperately claw away from the system he has fought against all these years. Self-portrait? …Maybe.