It`s loaded with all sorts of clues that someone could build a story around. It`s very dreamlike. I`ve told people for many years now that I like the idea that the images are obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious. There`s not some secret formula to figure out what they mean.
The room itself had a strange, timeless quality to it.
Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself. The anticipation of discovering new possibilities becomes my greatest joy.
For me, in a very general way it has just become this metaphor for an open-ended, spiritual journey. I`m not a religious person, but as you age, there is sort of a heightened spiritual awareness where you value friends more and each day ... more as a gift that you are given to use in some effective way. So, I have consciously sought (to create) images that have boats in them, never knowing how they are going to end up.
It`s actually an image that I worked on for several days. It took a lot of versions until I got to that final version.