Recognizing an individual's responsibility to the universe, as well as the alienation of the self, provides one with the opportunity to joyfully harvest the calm of understanding. Then, as shown, the gray figure will be empowered to act, and the quest can progress from acquiring to giving. The architectural atmosphere here is partially an homage to the work of Giorgio de Chirico. The tree, the essential part of nature that is depicted, needs no such educational nurturing. The Yoruba of West Africa believe that the souls of ancestors inhabit the magnificent trees that flourish there.
Western scientists hold that trees are the most crucial photosynthetic producers of oxygen.
It is hoped that a necessary and sufficient number of people get the picture. The tradition of interpreting the female nude in art lives on. In my representation, it is not physical reality that is being depicted. Rather, nakedness is used to indicate the figure's confidence in her total physical reality. Not depicting the breasts does not indicate incompleteness, but rather, points to the pureness of the figure's being, to the absence of prurience.