CROSSING BORDERS, BREAKING BOUNDARIES... Los Angeles and many other places accompanied the results of the activism of newly formed Feminist, Black Power and Gay Liberation movements. Students and people of all ages questioned established authority in ways hardly believed possible in earlier periods of time. Aesthetic liberation and change took place concurrently with the rise, at the end of the s, of a plurality of forms in the visual arts. Peoples’ minds changed and became more open to experimental forms and more audacious ways of visual expression as the s pro- gressed. is created a climate of experimentation and Amaral was an artist whose imagination fit the times and the times favored his bourgeoning creativity. In a broader sense, the energy and constant searching for new forms of expression that characterized Amaral’s art in this preliminary phase set the stage for the further flowering of this incessantly restless experimenter of color, form, space and subject matter. Amaral went on from these early experiences to in- sert himself within the wider world of art in a highly unique way, developing a singular artistic voice that spoke a pluralistic, nimble and always-compelling aesthetic language. N o t a s . See the website Boiselifeworks.info. ese sculptures caused a serious scandal at the time. Shortly after the opening of the Vorpal show eleven of the pieces were seized by the San Francisco police, the gallery owner was arrested and the artist was put on trial for obscenity. e trial lasted for almost a month in June and July . Boise was ultimately acquitted and the work deemed not to be obscene. . Santiago Londoño Vélez, quoting the artist in “Jim Amaral. Cronología” in Jim Amaral. Trans/Figuraciones - (Bogotá: Banco de la República, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango: ), p. . . http://www.cranbrook.edu/sites/default/files/ftpimages/ /misc/misc_ .pdf. . Ivonne Pini, “Colombia,” in Edward J. Sullivan (ed.) Arte Latinoamericano del siglo  (San Sebastián: Nerea, ). . I am grateful to Susan Aberth for discussing Amaral’s sculpture and its relationship to pre-Hispanic gold. Personal communication to the author March , . . Riddle: Fallen Masks, •… ‚. –“ו“ׄ“ cm, bronze (detail; see p. „ •).