Just as Native Americans turned to their Shamans for answers into the mysteries of life, we now turn to learned doctors and scientists for the same reasons. In “Old Magic, New Magic,” I wanted to portray the ancient Shaman with the wings of his Totem Spirit, the eagle, the source of his power and magic. As he gazes into the future he comes face to face with what is in essence modern day magic. With the mapping of the human genome mankind finds itself on a new threshold of discovery, and aside from the learned few these discoveries appear to most of us as mysterious and magical as the works of the ancient Shaman.