It doesn't pay to think about things too much when you are involved on a project. It is easy to kill. I sat down one day and the concept for the book tumbled out in story board form in the space of a couple of hours. Very few changes, and no major ones, were made to it at all. Endpapers Hogarth's Gin Lane and The Rake's Progress.
Pantheistic spirituality fills the scene.
Excepts from a Gavin Bishop Interview where this page is discussed. This is the face of Papatuanuku, the Earth Mother, the giver of life to all things. Everything in nature is personified and recognised by the Maori as a spiritual force. The eyes are watching Jack. The door is red to make it stand out.