The trilogy explores the relationship between self and history. Light reflecting on these peeled silver print fragments resemble light reflections through water. In Spaces , peeling the image relates to the process of deconstruction, which takes apart and reveals the innermost beliefs of art and culture.
Reconstruction occurs when heroic sculptures and buildings are reconfigured out of the ruins.
The figures and hands in Spaces are based on classical postures and recall art historic figures and religious icons. Images of hands placed in paper boxes stacked to form monochromatic walls or columns refer to the Modernist idea that art is the most direct spiritual path. The closed boxes represent how rituals of prayer changed from an open communion with nature into an enclosed meditation, so as man could then control his own destiny by ruling over the natural. For Time , as a metaphoric parallel that alludes to human nature, the self and history interact to make and remake each other. Time explores a reconciliation with nature, where the figure is reunited with the close-valued ground symbolizing the quest for spiritual meaning.