Thanks to Bob Miller and Tom Matteson for hanging the art for us. Please read Jackie's explanation of the piece below. It contains the transformational spirit. They are crowded together and pushed out of the enclosure. Overcrowding of ideas symbolizes distraction from one's inner voice.
Death is our inability to perceive transformation.
By scooping up everything indiscriminately, you get a lot that don't survive. Through distractions and trying to include everything, the idea or elusive spirit risks being sacrificed. Transformation occurs with focus and selectivity. Jody earned his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Delaware, his M.S. in Inorganic Chemistry at Northwestern University, and his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from Penn State University. He has worked for marine chemists and scientists his whole career, doing environmental research, and comes to us from the Seattle and Anacortes area.