A white acrylic splat deer shape that took form with a ballpoint pen, and then became this. Edited, of course. This is something that symbolizes what I have been going through the past five years or so. I'm in a sort of waiting period. Like I'm frozen in time. Sort of like when you're up to your shoulders in the ocean and you try to run to shore, you're in slow-motion. Yet, amid everything, after all of the times I've been pulled under and water flooded my lungs... I'm always pulled back to the surface, and I'm a little closer... To what? I don't know. But everything is going to be okay. Everything is going to be fine. "This to shall pass." (Either Christ or God the Father as one of the twin 'gods'.)

This is what the piece means to me, that there is hope in the storm. I used a winter theme, a blizzard in the Forest, simply because winter is my favorite time of year… But, on a slightly different subject… I really sense that people in this community care for one another. We each get something different out of The Forest. For some people it may be just a game to be amused by, but I think for most people, it's something more. A way to connect with other people, escape from the terribly dullness of everyday life, or maybe to get some peace and quiet if your life isn’t dull. What does it mean to you?

Why are you striving, these days?
Why are you trying to earn grace?
Why are you crying?
Let me lift up your face,
Just don't turn away...
Why are you looking for love?
Why are you still searching...
As if I'm not enough?
To where will you go, child?
Tell me where will you run?
To where will you run?
-"By your Side" 10nth Avenue North


I know you
I walked with you once upon a dream
And I know it's true that visions are seldom all they seem
But if I know you
I know what you'll do
You'll love me at once
The way you did once
Upon a dream.
-Sleeping Beauty- Finale