FORWARD TO THE BEGINNING - The Stairway of Life

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FORWARD TO THE BEGINNING is a twenty-four inch diameter spherical painting that was commissioned by Avera St. Luke's Hospital in Aberdeen, South Dakota. The stairs symbolize our paths and choices through life. Some of the stairs lead to nowhere. When people emerge from the white hole, they are babies. As they crawl and then walk up and down and around on the stairway, they become young children, then teenagers, young adults, adults and senior citizens.

The older people finally arrive at the same space or tunnel. This adventure called Life, leads them back to where they started. "I think this is a unique way to talk about life and a universal way to talk about the beginning and terminus of life."

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