"Back when doves and hawks meant peace-loving or war-loving, it seemed
important to symbolize the need for balance in our view of world affairs and so the human
being supporting both the predator and prey.
Making sculpture takes a lot of time and as I worked on this piece week after
week, it seemed the work took on a broader and more important meaning: that we have the
capacity, in a sense, to balance the world's ecology or to destroy it. This bronze
sculpture of a young man is meant to symbolize that balance and that choice."