..... A final comment, by way of Freud, about Alkazzi's portraits of Jack Woolley, Tim Powell, Carlo Piazza, Ronald Kuchta, Patti Palladin, and Eva J. Pape, among other people. All are convincing "speaking likenesses," but more to the point is that they are "dream portraits," in Freud's sense of the dream. "Dream-imagination,' Freud wrote, "is susceptible in the subtlest manner to the shades of tender feelings and to passionate emotions, and promptly incorporates our inner life into external plastic pictures. " Alkazzi's portraits of friends are full of tender feeling and passionate emotions, suggesting his devotion to them, and suggesting the subtlety of his" artistic work," which is what Freud called "dream work.”

Donald Kuspit from Odyssey of Dreams: Basil Alkazzi's Spiritualism 2012