'the gambler' One of the things oft overlooked is the use of alliteration - that is, here is a little tree frog climbing its way acrioss a gigantus flytrap plant.... if it were just a work of nature, it would have been placed within its own proper setting. but here it is seen in a pot, and on a shelf - both indicative of humanity.... note the pot is irregular, so that while it is circular [indicating the cyclic nature], it also indicates that the cycling is not smooth, that there are highs and inpredicables along the way.... of course, as seen, the 'gambler' is rising over all this - the very human solution to things......

'Generation Gap' 

'Veneration' These two are examples of doing the opposite and having each respectively coming out positive.... originally was to be used as presenting a pro and an anti view of things, but discovered that my nature is such that can only see the pro of things - note that each presents a positive about the distinguishing brick..... on the one hand, having one new among a bunch of old can show that there is a continuance, an additive which together bond them all into a whole of strength.... but, note, too, that the same can be said of having an old among the new - that there, too, is a bonding which contributes to the whole..... as to why one is a rough painting, and the other a detailed pen/ink, it is in that over the years decided the second one would best rendered as detailed as can [and yes, have considered re-doing the first one as another pen/ink, to get a matched pair].... in each case, tho, note that the differences are as analogies to humans, of course, and that the differences are stressed as, in each way, of value in and of itself....