Any early spherical drawing done in 1983, during my first stay in Japan. The background highlights the complexity of our collective reality while the sphere symbolizes the way even complicated things are interconnected and form a perfect unity, when you look at them from a distance... I also sometimes look at this and feel reminded of the way new life grows within LIFE, there is a womb-like feeling here for me, or a sense of the pearl coming into being within the shell... The image of the sphere of course is one of the Universe's recurring and most beautiful creations... Similar shapes have been used in the surreal art of Escher and Magritte, so this idea is nothing new... I'm very influenced by Taoism and Zen, which emphasize the circle... for me spheres evoke this same "truth" about the mysterious multidimensional reality we all inhabit...