I am a psychologist with many interests that have become wellsprings for my current art — early human consciousness, indigenous cultures and their ceremonial practices, shamanism, dreams. I sometimes feel as if figures are coming to me a netherworld in which archetypal figures come into form, and sometimes want to come out to say something. The extreme grief of our war-ravaged world is a substrate giving rise to these figures. They offer an invitation to look past the concrete world, to know ourselves as part of nature, and beyond that, a world of constantly changing energies and forms. Perhaps they are suggesting that new information and forms might emerge to aid in healing the world.