"Resting" is a 24"X18" Rhythmistic oil painting that links humanity to the luster of nature. Onli often asserts that at our basic cultural roots all humanity was the same. In the Americas, Europe Asia, and Africa we all worshiped the Sun, viewed the Earth as alive, and worked the land with a great sense of appreciation. In our modern incarnation we have differentiated ourselves often to the level of forgetting our basic roots. His subject matter often links humanity to its icons, nature, itself, and a cosmic or spiritual context.

Onli had his students at Harold Washington College to draw self portraits. He shared with them a rare charcoal self portrait he had completed last summer in a class taught by Barlow at the Marwen Foundation where Onli is on its Educational Advisory Board.