These mixed-media works expand on the artist book Lies, magicians and blind faith 1993–95. Like the book, they continue Bose’s fascination with religious iconography, incorporating images from popular culture and a 'drawing' method achieved through solar burning with the aid of a magnifying glass and rendered in heavily worked surfaces. Produced in Lismore while Bose was a Visiting Research Fellow at Southern Cross University, the works featured in a culminating exhibition held at the University Art Museum in 1994.

The title of Judiel’s virgin miracle refers to a series of claimed apparitions of the Virgin Mary atop a guava tree that a child in La Union province is said to have witnessed, culminating in a ‘visitation’ that attracted one million followers in 1993. Named for a Rolling Stones album, Let it bleed contains a Sator Square — an early, two-dimensional Latin palindrome of obscure meaning, which can be read both horizontally and vertically.