In the book Symbols Signs and Signets, Ervine Metzl writes: "Behind the veil of Time, primitive man has left a record of himself in symbols he created ages before he learned to write.  Just as a child piles up sticks and stones to represent concepts for which he has not yet learned words, so mankind in its childhood built cairns and marked trees in its first efforts of self-expression."

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My fascination with archetypal symbols goes back to my youth.  I think an artist's job is to make meaningful marks.  Man has been making marks since the beginning to tell his story.  I use specific symbols to activate space.  Sometimes, abstractly, I will use the triangle or the delta to symbolize the village or a family.  These works represent documents, just as paper has been used for centuries.