Spring, 2008, charcoal on Rives BFK, image 19 x 26 inches. $800

The model and the mood of this piece reminds me of Shakespeare's Puck from A Midsummer Night's Dream. And I thought of spring, like a budding plant. The arms and their shadows remind me of branches, and the arch in the back combined with the light on his stomach remind me how a young plant bends its stem breaking through the ground.