If people depend too much on the glow of plaques and awards, all those things will take them farther and farther away from those people who mean something to their lives. My family is the blood of my life. I have a wife, two sons, three horses, and two dogs. I draw my strength from them. Fire is used as a recurring image and a symbolic reference in your work.
Fire is everywhere, both consuming and cleansing.
The fire in all my work has innumerable connotations. You can take it mythologically back to the Toltecs, the Mayans, the Olmecs. All the way back to when it was prophesied that all the cosmos would be destroyed in the fifth sun, which would be fire. Mythologically, fire is regenerating the entire universe. Then again, you can take it down to the most minute metaphor of energy and molecules and how they are structured.