24"X34" BRONZE WALL SCULPTURE AND SCONCE (RADIATES LIGHT FROM WITHIN) DEPICTING MAN'S PROCESSING OF THE NATURAL AND CONVERTING IT INTO HIS BUILDINGS, TRANSPORTATION AND CIVILIZATION. AS DEPICTED AND IN ACTUALITY, IT IS A CLOSED SYSTEM WITH DIMINISHING RESOURCES. THE ARTIST'S POEM, WHICH IS AS FOLLOWS, ALSO DESCRIBES THIS OCCURRENCE: MAN IN NATURE TOILS AND PLAYS AND GLEANS ITS STUFF TO MAKE HIS TOYS THEN BUILDS TO SCALE TO SUIT HIS WHIM HIS BUILDINGS BOMBS AND COINS FOR THEM AND THEN HE STANDS IN AWE OF SELF AS GOD HAS DONE ANOTHER DAY FOR NATURE'S LOSS MAN THINKS HIS GAIN TIL NEITHER SHALL PERHAPS REMAIN.