This is the only work entirely done in stipple, mostly for the ability of being able to render the leather look of the books and the woodgrain of the shelf... it is, as most all of my works, a multiple statement of ideas, from the obvious of progression from child blocks to educated books to creativity in structuring a bonsai, to the also obvious of vegetation to constructive use to cycling back to controled working of vegetation... there is, too, a strong sense of purposefulness, where little is left to whim and much to goal directiveness...