Reared Window This was an outgrowth of a photo showing a tree managing to grow in a narrow canyon way, where only the part above the walls has the leafry... wanting to make it more interesting, took the idea and made it as part of the 'backyard' of a home... wanting further to see it better, and to gain a sense of depth to the work, turned the left wall into a column whereas light could be seen on both close and back, and allowing for a distance viewing... underscoring this is putting the whole in the frame of a window, with a veggie on the sill [originally to be as part of vines growing on far right, but omitted for not being necessary to the work..... this, too, is a case of 'saving' a work - note the varigation of the wall, made thus by ink drips on the top right, mandating creative ways to saving the rendering, by having similar ones over the wall..... of course, the theme/title plays on multiple layers, from take-off of the Hitchcock movie to something being raised [as in growing something] as well as the act of rising.... subconsciously, it turns out there is also an eroticness to the work, using the rocks and tree as symbols for genital views [or so have been told by others]... at present, is the largest colored ink work done.....

Familial One of the possible usefulness of fantasy is as allegory - in this case, as a gift to a friend, a portrait, actually, of her as she innerly visualizes herself... there are, of couse, several layers to this, as familial could refer to either of them, as well as other things such as dragon color [which makes for differences], the three columns, and so forth - all involved with symbolisms not so readily apparent to contemporaries.... note that, in spite of the usual viewing of the beast, this is very much a benevolent presentation, one with an erotic inclination....