I thought it would be interesting to illustrate ritual type scenes in environments that seem only oddly familiar. If you have the opportunity to look closely at this piece you will notice that none of the "people" have any certain style of clothes or look about them. There are no designer jeans and sneakers. There is also no recognizable writing/alphabet (at least not that I know of). However, if you look closely you see that there are certain symbols and maybe even some shapes that could be a language. Something that could be telling a story. If only we could read the language. My thought was for this to be a piece that could be shown to anyone, anywhere in the universe, and have them understand that there may be ritualistic activity going on within the piece. Whether they understand what is going on would depend on an unlimited number of things. What culture are they from? What is really important in their culture? Do they even wear clothes? Have they seen beings like this? What do they worship? Do they worship at all? How do they feel when they look at the piece? Does it scare them? Maybe it brings them joy! All of these questions become perfectly valid because I have gone to great lengths to make this piece culturally unbiased. It does not represent any one people or tribe or religion, etc. This is where the idea came from. Now for a quick explanation of my idea of what some of this represents....In the center we have the skull. To the best of my knowledge (which may be small, for this universe is vast and only minimally explored and experienced in our flesh bodies) we beings need a skull. It holds our brains, our "control center" if you will. It generally represents life and death.