'First the Sand...' one of the joys in rendering is to take an old idea and give it a bit of twist...theoriginal was a staid one of a child playing with building blocks, but quickly graduated to being on a beach, where crashing waves could be rendered - and a distant scene of the possible future... another sort of 'progression' as it were... but thought that having the person as an adult exploring new paths might make it more interesting - especially as adding a naked woman increases the beauty aspect of the work, elevating the metaphysical of the universe within... had thought of doing more to the circle above, as perhaps turning it into an explicit world of some kind, extending the 'progression' idea into a distance of space as well as the future - but thought that the skyscraper did that implicating well enough on its own, leaving the world to be whatever one's imaginatiuon dared to proclaim...