A series of readily identifiable components – including such things as a raven, an apple, a dove, a horse head – were selected both for the appeal of their line and color, as well as for their ambiguity of meaning. When incorporated into this body of work, the context is definitive; individual, recognizable components retain their own complex heritages or histories, depending on their varying symbolism in different cultures, faiths, or belief systems. This ambiguity of meaning is inherent to these representational sculptural elements, and the other abstract parts of the compositions are created around them, to impart or suggest the context. I have my own definite ideas about the meaning behind each of the sculptures in this series – and yet at the same time, I want them to be interpreted, at least in part, by the background or psyche of the individual viewer, independent of my own conceptual direction. I am interested in the intersection between the creator’s intention, and the viewer’s interpretation, because I believe that any common ground discovered there forms the basis, or energy, for our “collective unconscious” and the archetypal threads that tie us together as living, spiritual beings.