"...I saw the figures in the show buried under layers of earth... hidden from the clear sky. Yet they quest for the light, reaching and wanting something higher and more pure. They are stripped bare and made vulnerable, lost in almost totoal darkness, but they are also pure an noble in their nakedness. Frozen in a harsh light, they push against the invisible walls around them, faceless but not generic. The harsh contrast of light and shadow, white and black, positive space and negative helps to evoke the mood of their metaphoric battle for their own personal freedom, and I think the life-size scale of the figures allows the viewer to easier impose their own meaning upon that struggle."

Jim Towns, March 2004