The Road to Salvation
is Strewn with Roses

Influences

A Room of her Own

Pisces Rising is my third project. Except the photograph of the young woman, the other photographs were by me. Three countries and two states mingle within this image. I've loved the different responses. Kyle saw the tower as the remnant of a Buddhist stupa and I forget how he saw the fish and the woman. But the gist was that he saw the tower as the way formalized religion separates-traps man away from nature or something like that. It was not a putdown on religion but rather more the way religion is practiced when people follow the letter but not the spirit. Chiyo saw the carp as hungry women chasing the man and he feels safe in the tower, as if he has escaped but in reality he is trapped by the woman he is involved with--the woman outside the tower. George is into astrology so his interpretations was based on the title and 12th house issues of imprisonment. James guessed the title without being told although George gave him a big huge hint that it was astrology-related.

Acesta left his interp in the guestbook: Both the man and the woman look to be very content with where they are at. The woman is a playful spirit. She seems to be toying with the man behind the bars. He doesn't seem to mind. The fish are very hungry. Maybe hungry for some level of being that is beyond their reach. But the bird is the only truly free creature in this scene. The woman in "Pisces Rising" may not realize it, but because she is so drawn to the stone structure, is as "trapped" as the man behind the bars.